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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Bahadir Balban <bahadir.lists@googlemail.com>
Cc: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: flushing cache after block io
Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 14:30:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070503133002.GC21024@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <97bec2470705030625u1a0117b3h1cd2d46c06ee035e@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 02:25:44PM +0100, Bahadir Balban wrote:
> On 5/1/07, Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca> wrote:
> >
> >Russell, didn't you go through all of this pain and fix it
> >a year or two ago?
> >
> >Bahadir, exactly what kernel/version is this with?
> >
> >
> 
> This is on 2.6.19 but I'm unsure if there's a fix in the tree as I
> might be one of the few to try ARM MPCore with a block device.
> Although, filesystems over mtd or nfs work fine without the flushing.

You want to be running something post 2.6.20-rc5 ideally (so 2.6.20).
There's a couple of cache flushing related patches merged between .19
and .20.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:

      reply	other threads:[~2007-05-03 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-01 13:58 flushing cache after block io Bahadir Balban
2007-05-01 17:46 ` Mark Lord
2007-05-03 13:23   ` Russell King
2007-05-03 13:25   ` Bahadir Balban
2007-05-03 13:30     ` Russell King [this message]

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