linux-kernel - Re: USB mass storage and ARM cache coherency

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Date:	3 Feb 2010 18:56:44 -0500
From:	"George Spelvin" <linux@...izon.com>
To:	catalin.marinas@....com
Cc:	linux@...izon.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: USB mass storage and ARM cache coherency

> Apart from that, flush_dcache_page() doesn't have any data flow
> information. Optimisations could be done on ARM if we know that the
> kernel only intends to read from a page (no flushing necessary with a
> non-aliasing D-cache).

Already done in flush_dcache_page().  If possible (uniprocessor), it just
flags the page as PG_dcache_dirty, and defers the actual flush operation
until it's mapped somewhere else (either a virtual alias or executable).

See Documentation/cachetlb.txt.  (Really, all PIO drivers should
be calling flush_dcache_page.)
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