Messages in this thread | | | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Date | Mon, 2 Jul 2001 15:47:36 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: Cache issues |
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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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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