[RFCv2][PATCH 2/5] arm: Implement ARCH_HAS_FORCE_CACHE

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli at gmail.com
Tue Aug 9 14:56:17 PDT 2016


On 08/08/2016 10:49 AM, Laura Abbott wrote:
> arm may need the kernel_force_cache APIs to guarantee data consistency.
> Implement versions of these APIs based on the DMA APIs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott at redhat.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h |   4 ++
>  arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c         | 119 --------------------------------------
>  arch/arm/mm/flush.c               | 115 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Why is the code moved between dma-mapping.c and flush.c? It was not
obvious while looking at these patches why this is needed.
-- 
Florian



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