From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: oliver@neukum.org (Oliver Neukum) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:48:17 +0100 Subject: USB mass storage and ARM cache coherency In-Reply-To: <1267045954.23523.1692.camel@pasglop> References: <1266445892.16346.306.camel@pasglop> <201002240816.10178.oliver@neukum.org> <1267045954.23523.1692.camel@pasglop> Message-ID: <201002250448.17866.oliver@neukum.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Am Mittwoch, 24. Februar 2010 22:12:34 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt: > On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 08:16 +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > I don't know. The issue seems quite complex. It would seem better to > > centralize it as far as practical. Do you have a wrapper drivers could > > call? > > flush_dcache_page() ? :-) Will this do anything on arches that don't need it? Secondly, can we have a wrapper that you can pass a pointer and an offset? > Now, the subsystem might be the one to know whether something is mapped > into userspace or not (v4l in our case) in which case a wrapper could be > created. If possible, I'd like to centralize this. Drivers are likely to get this wrong. Regards Oliver