linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2] remove unnecessary cache flush on v6 copypage

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Date:	Thu, 7 Jul 2011 15:49:21 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Heechul Yun <heechul@...inois.edu>
Cc:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	saeed.bishara@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] remove unnecessary cache flush on v6 copypage

On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 09:30:19AM -0500, Heechul Yun wrote:
> ARM: mm: remove unnecessary cache flush on v6 copypage

Just move this line in the subject and remove it from the body.

> Originally introduced to maintain coherency between icache and dcache
> in v6 nonaliasing mode. This is now handled by __sync_icache_dcache since
> c0177800, therefore unneceary in this function.  

Minor typo - "unnecessary".

Thanks.

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Catalin
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