[PATCH V2] arm: mm: fix dcache flush logic for compound high pages
Will Deacon
will.deacon at arm.com
Mon Dec 16 10:54:04 EST 2013
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 03:03:43PM +0000, Steve Capper wrote:
> When given a compound high page, __flush_dcache_page will only flush
> the first page of the compound page repeatedly rather than the entire
> set of constituent pages.
>
> This patch corrects the logic such that all constituent pages are now
> flushed.
Since this probably wants to go to -stable, it's worth mentioning the commit
which introduced it in the commit text.
> Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper at linaro.org>
> ---
> V2: style change use page + i rather than separate struct *cpage
> ---
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Cheers Steve.
Will
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