Messages in this thread | | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: Missing cache flush. | Date | Tue, 05 Jun 2001 13:52:41 +0100 |
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davem@redhat.com said: > How about flush_cache_range_force() instead? > I want something in the name that tells the reader "this flushes the > caches, even though under every other ordinary circumstance you would > not need to".
OL, then. I would have thought it made more sense to have the flush_dcache_range() unconditionally do what its name implies, and to have a separate flush_dcache_range_for_dma() function which is optional. But that decision was already made - I suppose we can't change the semantics now.
-- dwmw2
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