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Message-ID: <20110708094722.GC16293@e102109-lin.cambridge.arm.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 10:47:22 +0100
From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc: Heechul Yun <heechul@...inois.edu>,
"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"saeed.bishara@...il.com" <saeed.bishara@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] remove unnecessary cache flush on v6 copypage
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 10:35:42AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 09:30:19AM -0500, Heechul Yun wrote:
> > ARM: mm: remove unnecessary cache flush on v6 copypage
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Heechul Yun <heechul@...inois.edu>
> > Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
> > --
> > arch/arm/mm/copypage-v6.c | 1 -
> > 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/copypage-v6.c b/arch/arm/mm/copypage-v6.c
> > index bdba6c6..63cca00 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/mm/copypage-v6.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm/mm/copypage-v6.c
> > @@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ static void v6_copy_user_highpage_nonaliasing(struct page *to,
> > kfrom = kmap_atomic(from, KM_USER0);
> > kto = kmap_atomic(to, KM_USER1);
> > copy_page(kto, kfrom);
> > - __cpuc_flush_dcache_area(kto, PAGE_SIZE);
> > kunmap_atomic(kto, KM_USER1);
> > kunmap_atomic(kfrom, KM_USER0);
> > }
>
> The above patch is fine (it has tabs preserved) but the version in the
> patch system has spaces instead (each space character has been replaced
> with a '.') and so doesn't apply:
Does your patch system now understand a From: line in the patch log (and
preserve the author)? I can upload the patch on Heechul's behalf.
--
Catalin
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