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From: saeed@marvell.com (Saeed Bishara)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: fix the note about dcache lazy flushing for SMP systems
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 21:33:03 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1305225183-15521-2-git-send-email-saeed@marvell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1305225183-15521-1-git-send-email-saeed@marvell.com>


Signed-off-by: Saeed Bishara <saeed@marvell.com>
---
 arch/arm/mm/flush.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/flush.c b/arch/arm/mm/flush.c
index f1b7998..e632363 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/flush.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/flush.c
@@ -275,7 +275,8 @@ void __sync_icache_dcache(pte_t pteval)
  *  kernel cache lines for later.  Otherwise, we assume we have
  *  aliasing mappings.
  *
- * Note that we disable the lazy flush for SMP.
+ * Note that we disable the lazy flush for SMP configurations where
+ * the cache maintenance operations are not automatically broadcasted
  */
 void flush_dcache_page(struct page *page)
 {
-- 
1.7.1

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-12 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-12 18:33 [PATCH 1/2] ARM: remove unneeded check of the cache_is_vipt_nonaliasing() Saeed Bishara
2011-05-12 18:33 ` Saeed Bishara [this message]
2011-05-16  7:51   ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM: fix the note about dcache lazy flushing for SMP systems saeed bishara
2011-05-16  8:46   ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-15 14:48 ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM: remove unneeded check of the cache_is_vipt_nonaliasing() saeed bishara
2011-05-15 21:11   ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-16  7:39     ` saeed bishara
2011-05-16  8:38       ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-16 10:00         ` saeed bishara
2011-05-16 11:58           ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-16 12:13             ` Saeed Bishara
2011-05-16 15:42               ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-16 11:00         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-16 11:10           ` Saeed Bishara
2011-05-16 11:11             ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-16 11:15               ` Saeed Bishara
2011-05-16 13:42                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-16 14:43                   ` saeed bishara

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