[PATCH 4/7] omap: iommu: PREFETCH_IOTLB cleanup

Ohad Ben-Cohen ohad at wizery.com
Thu Aug 18 02:33:43 EDT 2011


Hi Hiroshi,

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Hiroshi DOYU <Hiroshi.DOYU at nokia.com> wrote:
>> While we're at it, rename load_iotlb_entry to prefetch_iotlb_entry
>> to better reflect the purpose of that function.
>
> Considering that, originally this function is the counterpart of
> "flush_iotlb_page()" among load_iotlb_/flush_iotlb_*() family and
> OMAP1 doesn't use H/W page table but only uses TLB(only
> prefetch/load_tlb), what about keeping the original function
> "load_iotlb_entry()", and make inline function
> "prefetch_iotlb_entry()" has it?

Sure, np (I have considered doing that, but decided to drop it for now
since there's no other user of load_iotlb_entry currently. Now that
you mention it too, I'll do that).

Thanks,
Ohad.



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