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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2021 12:24:11 -0700
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
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Subject: Re: flush_kernel_dcache_page fixes and removal
On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 11:09 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
>
> I think we should just remove it and eat the very minor overhead in
> exec rather than confusing poor driver writers.
Ack.
I think architectures that have virtual caches might want to think
about this patch a bit more, but on the whole I can't argue against
the "it's badly documented and misused".
No sane architecture will care, since dcache will be coherent (there
are more issues on the I$ side, but that's a different issue)
Linus
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