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

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Mon Oct 8 07:36:07 EDT 2012


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>




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