Re: [PATCH] Remove needless flush_dcache_page call

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Fri Jan 16 2009 - 01:01:39 EST


On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 06:59:27AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> But there are quite possibly holes around here because not as much testing
> is done on CPUs with these kinds of caches. Eg. brd probably should be
> doing a flush_dcache_page in the rw == WRITE direction AFAIKS, so it picks
> up user aliases here.

Nick, if you wanted me to schlep a parisc machine to LCA for you, you
needed to ask me *before* I got as far as Vancouver ;-)

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