Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Oct 2002 14:35:15 +0000 (GMT) | From | Hugh Dickins <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] shmem missing cache flush |
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> On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> > Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 00:57:30 +0100 (BST) > > I would be much happier about adding it, if you could tell me that > I can then remove the flush_page_to_ram(page) from shmem_nopage? > > No we still have to support platforms using flush_page_to_ram() > > I didn't get a chance to deprecate this in 2.5.x, I wish I had.
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> > Date: 21 Oct 2002 17:12:22 +0100 > > Send me the diffs Im happy to give them a spin. > > Here goes. I contacted Anton and Paulus about flush_icache_page as > that is on the hitlist next and ppc/ppc64 is the only well maintained > port using that.
I like your patch, but what has changed? Are those platforms which were using flush_page_to_ram() now committed to its elimination? Or have they already replaced it (not seen in your patch)?
Hugh
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