From 2d4dc890b5c8fabd818a8586607e6843c4375e62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ilya Loginov Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:16:19 +0100 Subject: block: add helpers to run flush_dcache_page() against a bio and a request's pages Mtdblock driver doesn't call flush_dcache_page for pages in request. So, this causes problems on architectures where the icache doesn't fill from the dcache or with dcache aliases. The patch fixes this. The ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE symbol was introduced to avoid pointless empty cache-thrashing loops on architectures for which flush_dcache_page() is a no-op. Every architecture was provided with this flush pages on architectires where ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE is equal 1 or do nothing otherwise. See "fix mtd_blkdevs problem with caches on some architectures" discussion on LKML for more information. Signed-off-by: Ilya Loginov Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Peter Horton Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- arch/sparc/include/asm/cacheflush_32.h | 1 + arch/sparc/include/asm/cacheflush_64.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/sparc') diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/cacheflush_32.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/cacheflush_32.h index 68ac1091027..2e468773f25 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/cacheflush_32.h +++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/cacheflush_32.h @@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ BTFIXUPDEF_CALL(void, flush_sig_insns, struct mm_struct *, unsigned long) extern void sparc_flush_page_to_ram(struct page *page); +#define ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE 1 #define flush_dcache_page(page) sparc_flush_page_to_ram(page) #define flush_dcache_mmap_lock(mapping) do { } while (0) #define flush_dcache_mmap_unlock(mapping) do { } while (0) diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/cacheflush_64.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/cacheflush_64.h index c43321729b3..b95384033e8 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/cacheflush_64.h +++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/cacheflush_64.h @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ extern void flush_dcache_page_all(struct mm_struct *mm, struct page *page); #endif extern void __flush_dcache_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end); +#define ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE 1 extern void flush_dcache_page(struct page *page); #define flush_icache_page(vma, pg) do { } while(0) -- cgit v1.2.3