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authorIlya Loginov <isloginov@gmail.com>2009-11-26 09:16:19 +0100
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2009-11-26 09:16:19 +0100
commit2d4dc890b5c8fabd818a8586607e6843c4375e62 (patch)
tree9976ed7b0eed0056f8289aeb6a2b0abf8c940454 /include/linux/bio.h
parent3586e917f2c7df769d173c4ec99554cb40a911e5 (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 'include/linux/bio.h')
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/bio.h b/include/linux/bio.h
index 474792b825d..7fc5606e6ea 100644
--- a/include/linux/bio.h
+++ b/include/linux/bio.h
@@ -391,6 +391,18 @@ extern struct bio *bio_copy_kern(struct request_queue *, void *, unsigned int,
gfp_t, int);
extern void bio_set_pages_dirty(struct bio *bio);
extern void bio_check_pages_dirty(struct bio *bio);
+
+#ifndef ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE
+# error "You should define ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE for your platform"
+#endif
+#if ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE
+extern void bio_flush_dcache_pages(struct bio *bi);
+#else
+static inline void bio_flush_dcache_pages(struct bio *bi)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
extern struct bio *bio_copy_user(struct request_queue *, struct rq_map_data *,
unsigned long, unsigned int, int, gfp_t);
extern struct bio *bio_copy_user_iov(struct request_queue *,