[PATCH] mmci: call flush_dcache_page() outside of atomic kmap

[Rabin Vincent]

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Rabin Vincent <rabin at rab.in> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Rabin Vincent <rabin at rab.in> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 3:43 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
>> <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>>> Err, hang on.  The sg iter API uses flush_kernel_dcache_page(), not
>>> flush_dcache_page().  flush_kernel_dcache_page() is not expected to
>>> touch userspace mappings.
>>>
>>> On ARM, we don't implement flush_kernel_dcache_page() because it's
>>> not required (see commit f8b63c1.)  Essentially, because we now consider
>>> freshly created page cache pages dirty, we always flush them before we
>>> map them into userspace, so a call to flush_kernel_dcache_page() has
>>> nothing to do.
>>
>> This email thread was never about the flush_kernel_dcache_page() in the
>> sg_miter API.  It's about the flush_dcache_page() in MMCI.
>
> This flush_dcache_page() can also be removed because of what you mention
> above, right?