From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas) Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 09:46:48 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: fix the note about dcache lazy flushing for SMP systems In-Reply-To: <1305225183-15521-2-git-send-email-saeed@marvell.com> References: <1305225183-15521-1-git-send-email-saeed@marvell.com> <1305225183-15521-2-git-send-email-saeed@marvell.com> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 12 May 2011 19:33, Saeed Bishara wrote: > 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 (I think "broadcast" rather than "broadcasted" would be better, though I'm not a native English speaker. And a full stop at the end) Acked-by: Catalin Marinas