[PATCH] ARM: avoid cache flushing in flush_dcache_page()
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Mon Nov 7 03:35:27 PST 2016
On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 11:30:24AM +0100, Rabin Vincent wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/flush.c b/arch/arm/mm/flush.c
> index 3cced84..f1e6190 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/flush.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/flush.c
> @@ -327,6 +327,12 @@ void flush_dcache_page(struct page *page)
> if (page == ZERO_PAGE(0))
> return;
>
> + if (!cache_ops_need_broadcast() && cache_is_vipt_nonaliasing()) {
> + if (test_bit(PG_dcache_clean, &page->flags))
> + clear_bit(PG_dcache_clean, &page->flags);
> + return;
> + }
> +
> mapping = page_mapping(page);
>
> if (!cache_ops_need_broadcast() &&
I'm ok with the logic in this patch but is there a way to combine the
two 'if' blocks together, just to keep the function shorter?
--
Catalin
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