[CFT:PATCH] Remove a seemingly unnecessary cache flush

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Dec 14 06:53:18 EST 2009


On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:50:11PM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> Russell King - ARM Linux writes:
>  > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 10:12:10PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>  > > While looking into the possible msync() issue (which turned out to be a
>  > > non-issue - it's covered by clever code), I found that we're flushing
>  > > the same page multiple times.
>  > 
>  > I'm going to queue this patch up today since I believe it is correct,
>  > though it would be nice to have a few more people test it on pre-ARMv6
>  > hardware.
> 
> Tested here with gcc and glibc builds and testsuite runs on IXP420,
> IOP80219, and Kirkwood (Feroceon?), all ARMv5TE. No signs of problems.

Do the builds appear to be any faster?



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