[PATCH V2 1/2] ARM: remove unnecessary flush of anon pages in flush_dcache_page()

[Simon Baatz]

Hi Catalin,

On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 12:36:07PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 12:29:11PM +0100, Simon Baatz wrote:
> > On non-aliasing VIPT D-caches, there is no need to flush the kernel
> > mapping of anon pages in flush_dcache_page() directly.  If the page is
> > mapped as executable later, the necessary D/I-cache flush will be done
> > in __sync_icache_dcache().
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Baatz <gmbnomis at gmail.com>
> > Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> > Cc: Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>
> 
> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> 

Thanks for the ack! However, while this improvement is nice to have,
I care more about fixing that nasty data corruption on VIVT/VIPT
aliasing caches with the second patch.  In case you cannot offer a
Acked-by or Reviewed-by for the patch for technical reasons, could
you please explain your reservations against the fix?


- Simon