[PATCH] ARM: drop unused parameter from flush_cache_user_range

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Tue Dec 20 09:37:08 EST 2011


2011/12/15 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>:
> vma isn't used and flush_cache_user_range isn't a standard macro that
> is used on several archs with the same prototype. In fact only unicore32
> has a macro with the same name (with an identical implementation and no
> in-tree users).
>
> This is a part of a patch proposed by Dima Zavin (with Message-id:
> 1272439931-12795-1-git-send-email-dima at android.com) that didn't get
> accepted.
>
> Cc: Dima Zavin <dima at android.com>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>

I had this change as part of Dima's other patch to solve the user
cache maintenance race (but Russell didn't like it -
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/139111)

-- 
Catalin



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