Re: USB mass storage and ARM cache coherency

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Tue Feb 02 2010 - 07:01:30 EST


On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 11:48 +0000, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Montag, 1. Februar 2010 18:29:14 schrieb Catalin Marinas:
> > + if (usb_pipein(urb->pipe) && usb_pipetype(urb->pipe) == PIPE_BULK) {
> > + void *ptr;
> > + for (ptr = urb->transfer_buffer;
> > + ptr < urb->transfer_buffer + urb->transfer_buffer_length;
> > + ptr += PAGE_SIZE)
> > + flush_dcache_page(virt_to_page(ptr));
>
> Is it correct to limit this to BULK pipes?

I'm not entirely sure. The flush_dcache_page() should only be called for
pages that may be mapped into user space (page cache pages). We don't
need this for control buffers. It was my impression that what's coming
from the mass storage layer intended for page cache pages has the
PIPE_BULK type (I may be wrong though).

--
Catalin

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