netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf, x64: remove bpf_flush

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Message-ID: <20180227172544.do5xalkjddc3ytfc@ast-mbp.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Tue, 27 Feb 2018 09:25:48 -0800
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Cc:     ast@...nel.org, edumazet@...gle.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf, x64: remove bpf_flush_icache

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 10:13:52PM +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> Unlike other archs flush_icache_range() is a noop on x64, therefore
> remove the JIT's bpf_flush_icache() altogether since not needed.
> 
> Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>

Applied to bpf-next, Thanks Daniel.