From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe@m17n.org>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Cache issues
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 15:47:36 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15168.64008.256248.834586@pizda.ninka.net> (raw)
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NIIBE Yutaka writes:
> I've looked thorough all flush_page_to_ram and flush_icache_page calls.
> If the architecture support follows the rule of Documentation/cachetlb.txt,
> I think that all the occurrences of flush_page_to_ram and
> flush_icache_page are (almost) bogus now.
Unfortunately several ports still use the old calls and do not make
use of flush_dcache_page etc.
So these older intefaces may not be arbitrarily removed in 2.4.x
The goal is to eventually remove them, this is true. But it must
be done in 2.5.x at the earliest.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-02 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-12 23:21 [PATCH] swapin flush cache bug Marcelo Tosatti
2001-02-13 9:50 ` Russell King
2001-02-13 10:53 ` NIIBE Yutaka
2001-02-13 11:16 ` Russell King
2001-02-13 11:26 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-13 23:50 ` NIIBE Yutaka
2001-02-14 2:08 ` NIIBE Yutaka
2001-02-14 10:12 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-06-27 0:51 ` NIIBE Yutaka
2001-06-27 10:11 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-06-28 0:42 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-28 0:07 ` NIIBE Yutaka
2001-06-27 22:41 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-06-28 0:23 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-06-28 0:47 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-28 1:10 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-29 14:18 ` NIIBE Yutaka
2001-07-02 22:47 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2001-06-28 0:41 ` NIIBE Yutaka
2001-06-28 1:04 ` NIIBE Yutaka
2001-07-02 11:23 ` Cache issues NIIBE Yutaka
2001-07-03 0:04 ` NIIBE Yutaka
2001-06-28 0:46 ` [PATCH] swapin flush cache bug David S. Miller
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