[PATCHv2] remove unnecessary cache flush on v6 copypage
Heechul Yun
heechul at illinois.edu
Thu Jul 7 10:30:19 EDT 2011
ARM: mm: remove unnecessary cache flush on v6 copypage
Originally introduced to maintain coherency between icache and dcache
in v6 nonaliasing mode. This is now handled by __sync_icache_dcache since
c0177800, therefore unneceary in this function.
Signed-off-by: Heechul Yun <heechul at illinois.edu>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
--
arch/arm/mm/copypage-v6.c | 1 -
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/copypage-v6.c b/arch/arm/mm/copypage-v6.c
index bdba6c6..63cca00 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/copypage-v6.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/copypage-v6.c
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ static void v6_copy_user_highpage_nonaliasing(struct page *to,
kfrom = kmap_atomic(from, KM_USER0);
kto = kmap_atomic(to, KM_USER1);
copy_page(kto, kfrom);
- __cpuc_flush_dcache_area(kto, PAGE_SIZE);
kunmap_atomic(kto, KM_USER1);
kunmap_atomic(kfrom, KM_USER0);
}
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