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Hi!

> What shall we call this function? The intuitive "flush_dcache_range" appears
> to have already been taken.


Please do not use *_dcache_*. It would confuse me with dentry cache.

Flush data cche range would be ok.

[BTW what about just rewriting it with 0xffs after you zero the block?
Someone already suggested that, and it seems ok.]
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