From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 05:12:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 05:12:09 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:5793 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 05:12:03 -0400 From: "David S. Miller" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15132.41562.879696.484467@pizda.ninka.net> Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 02:11:54 -0700 (PDT) To: David Woodhouse Cc: Chris Wedgwood , Jeff Garzik , bjornw@axis.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Missing cache flush. In-Reply-To: <25831.991731935@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <15132.40298.80954.434805@pizda.ninka.net> <15132.22933.859130.119059@pizda.ninka.net> <13942.991696607@redhat.com> <3B1C1872.8D8F1529@mandrakesoft.com> <15132.15829.322534.88410@pizda.ninka.net> <20010605155550.C22741@metastasis.f00f.org> <25587.991730769@redhat.com> <25831.991731935@redhat.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 13) "Crater Lake" XEmacs Lucid Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Woodhouse writes: > What shall we call this function? The intuitive "flush_dcache_range" appears > to have already been taken. Call it flush_ecache_full() or something. Many architectures need to implement this anyways if they have parity error exception handling. Most platforms sadly do not. Sparc64 is one of the exceptions here... Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com