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| author | James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> | 2006-03-26 11:36:59 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-03-26 18:56:53 +0200 |
| commit | 5a3a5a98b6422d05c39eaa32c8b3f83840c7b768 (patch) | |
| tree | e96a8f5543c94c57eb2b761fa94df9f7a9412e52 /arch/i386/Makefile | |
| parent | [PATCH] Add API for flushing Anon pages (diff) | |
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[PATCH] Add flush_kernel_dcache_page() API
We have a problem in a lot of emulated storage in that it takes a page from
get_user_pages() and does something like
kmap_atomic(page)
modify page
kunmap_atomic(page)
However, nothing has flushed the kernel cache view of the page before the
kunmap. We need a lightweight API to do this, so this new API would
specifically be for flushing the kernel cache view of a user page which the
kernel has modified. The driver would need to add
flush_kernel_dcache_page(page) before the final kunmap.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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