From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>,
bjornw@axis.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Missing cache flush.
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 13:52:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17788.991745561@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15132.54565.311995.865807@pizda.ninka.net>
davem@redhat.com said:
> How about flush_cache_range_force() instead?
> I want something in the name that tells the reader "this flushes the
> caches, even though under every other ordinary circumstance you would
> not need to".
OL, then. I would have thought it made more sense to have the
flush_dcache_range() unconditionally do what its name implies, and to have a
separate flush_dcache_range_for_dma() function which is optional. But that
decision was already made - I suppose we can't change the semantics now.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-05 12:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-04 23:16 Missing cache flush David Woodhouse
2001-06-04 23:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-04 23:29 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-05 2:04 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-05 2:03 ` David S. Miller
[not found] ` <20010605155550.C22741@metastasis.f00f.org>
2001-06-05 4:01 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-05 8:46 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-05 8:50 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-05 9:05 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-05 9:11 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-05 12:42 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-05 12:48 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-05 12:52 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-06-06 8:32 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-06-06 19:48 ` Pavel Machek
2001-06-05 17:01 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-06-05 9:29 ` kira brown
2001-06-05 17:16 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-06 19:44 ` Earyly Cyrix CPUs was " Pavel Machek
2001-06-08 16:00 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-05 9:43 ` Johan Adolfsson
2001-06-05 9:17 ` Bjorn Wesen
2001-06-05 14:22 ` Vipin Malik
[not found] ` <20010606005703.A23758@metastasis.f00f.org>
2001-06-05 15:17 ` Ralf Baechle
[not found] <20010606112419.A24800@metastasis.f00f.org>
2001-06-06 8:43 ` James Sutherland
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