linux-kernel - Re: flush_kernel_dcache

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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>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
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        Vincent Chen <deanbo422@...il.com>,
        Helge Deller <deller@....de>,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
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        Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>,
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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