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authorIlya Loginov <isloginov@gmail.com>2009-11-26 09:16:19 +0100
committerGary King <gking@nvidia.com>2010-04-05 14:03:24 -0700
commitcedfa4f5754c5aa562d545865922626e2239f11b (patch)
treeb4a6e51490f076e6bfd02fd1e1be048b6922f621 /fs
parent3274abc33ec2c170acd6fd2732c271ad9dd0b17f (diff)
block: add helpers to run flush_dcache_page() against a bio and a request's pages
Mtdblock driver doesn't call flush_dcache_page for pages in request. So, this causes problems on architectures where the icache doesn't fill from the dcache or with dcache aliases. The patch fixes this. The ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE symbol was introduced to avoid pointless empty cache-thrashing loops on architectures for which flush_dcache_page() is a no-op. Every architecture was provided with this flush pages on architectires where ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE is equal 1 or do nothing otherwise. See "fix mtd_blkdevs problem with caches on some architectures" discussion on LKML for more information. Signed-off-by: Ilya Loginov <isloginov@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Horton <phorton@bitbox.co.uk> Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/bio.c12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/bio.c b/fs/bio.c
index e0c9e71cc404..8bea4c16d5ca 100644
--- a/fs/bio.c
+++ b/fs/bio.c
@@ -1398,6 +1398,18 @@ void bio_check_pages_dirty(struct bio *bio)
}
}
+#if ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE
+void bio_flush_dcache_pages(struct bio *bi)
+{
+ int i;
+ struct bio_vec *bvec;
+
+ bio_for_each_segment(bvec, bi, i)
+ flush_dcache_page(bvec->bv_page);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(bio_flush_dcache_pages);
+#endif
+
/**
* bio_endio - end I/O on a bio
* @bio: bio