From 2d4dc890b5c8fabd818a8586607e6843c4375e62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ilya Loginov Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:16:19 +0100 Subject: 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 Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Peter Horton Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- fs/bio.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs') diff --git a/fs/bio.c b/fs/bio.c index 12da5db8682..e23a63f4f7d 100644 --- a/fs/bio.c +++ b/fs/bio.c @@ -1393,6 +1393,18 @@ 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 -- cgit v1.2.3