From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell King Subject: Re: flushing cache after block io Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 14:30:03 +0100 Message-ID: <20070503133002.GC21024@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <97bec2470705010658s48c70ba2pc5310efa533a96ea@mail.gmail.com> <46377D10.9090605@rtr.ca> <97bec2470705030625u1a0117b3h1cd2d46c06ee035e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([217.147.92.249]:3734 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031299AbXECNaR (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 09:30:17 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <97bec2470705030625u1a0117b3h1cd2d46c06ee035e@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Bahadir Balban Cc: Mark Lord , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 02:25:44PM +0100, Bahadir Balban wrote: > On 5/1/07, Mark Lord 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: