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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: tom.leiming@gmail.com
Cc: joerg.roedel@amd.com, fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] asm-generic:remove calling flush_write_buffers() in dma_sync_*_for_cpu
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:34:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906281534.37148.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1246199959-6548-1-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com>

On Sunday 28 June 2009 14:39:19 tom.leiming@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
> 
> dma_sync_*_for_cpu() is introduced to make cpu access dma buffers safely when
> dma transfer is over, it seems there is nothing to do with cpu write buffer,
> so remove it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>

Right, this looks correct. On a related note, flush_write_buffers is
architecture specific right now: only x86 and frv implement it at all,
though and with slightly different semantics.

Maybe it would be more consistent to change the dma_map_* and
dma_sync_*_for_device stuff there to wmb() to make it  portable
to other architectures.

	Arnd <><

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-28 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-28 14:39 [PATCH][RFC] asm-generic:remove calling flush_write_buffers() in dma_sync_*_for_cpu tom.leiming
2009-06-28 15:34 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2009-06-29 12:31   ` Joerg Roedel
2009-06-29 13:51     ` Ming Lei
2009-06-29 14:45       ` Joerg Roedel
2009-06-29 14:54         ` Ming Lei
2009-06-29 15:44           ` Joerg Roedel
2009-06-29 16:22     ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-06-29 16:31       ` Alan Cox
2009-06-29 16:45         ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-06-29 17:16           ` Alan Cox
2009-06-30 12:34             ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-06-30 12:40               ` Alan Cox
2009-06-30 12:48                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-06-30 13:09                   ` Alan Cox
2009-06-30 13:38                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-07-07  1:54                       ` Ming Lei
2009-07-07  7:48                         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-07-07 13:43                           ` Ming Lei
2009-07-07 14:06                             ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-07-07 14:55                               ` Ming Lei
2009-07-07 15:30                                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-07-07 17:36                               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-07-07 17:33                             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-06-29 18:47           ` Joerg Roedel
2009-06-29 19:10             ` Alan Cox
2009-06-29 19:24               ` Joerg Roedel
2009-06-29 18:48       ` Joerg Roedel

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