[PATCH] remove unnecessary cache flush on v6 copypage

saeed bishara saeed.bishara at gmail.com
Thu Jul 7 06:31:03 EDT 2011


On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Catalin Marinas
<catalin.marinas at arm.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, July 7, 2011, heechul Yun <heechul at illinois.edu> wrote:
>> ARM: mm: remove unnecessary cache flush on v6 copypage
I think you better mention that this is regarding v6 nonaliasing mode.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Heechul Yun <heechul at illinois.edu>
>
> I would clarify the commit log a bit stating that this flush is no
> longer necessary because of commit c0177800. We had a good reason for
> adding the flush initially.
I agree, but I would also mention that the flush was needed in order
to coherent between dcache and icache, and now this is being handled
by __sync_icache_dcache
saeed



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