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>
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- arch/alpha/include/asm/cacheflush.h 1 addition, 0 deletionsarch/alpha/include/asm/cacheflush.h
- arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h 1 addition, 0 deletionsarch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
- arch/avr32/include/asm/cacheflush.h 1 addition, 0 deletionsarch/avr32/include/asm/cacheflush.h
- arch/blackfin/include/asm/cacheflush.h 2 additions, 0 deletionsarch/blackfin/include/asm/cacheflush.h
- arch/cris/include/asm/cacheflush.h 1 addition, 0 deletionsarch/cris/include/asm/cacheflush.h
- arch/frv/include/asm/cacheflush.h 1 addition, 0 deletionsarch/frv/include/asm/cacheflush.h
- arch/h8300/include/asm/cacheflush.h 1 addition, 0 deletionsarch/h8300/include/asm/cacheflush.h
- arch/ia64/include/asm/cacheflush.h 1 addition, 0 deletionsarch/ia64/include/asm/cacheflush.h
- arch/m32r/include/asm/cacheflush.h 3 additions, 0 deletionsarch/m32r/include/asm/cacheflush.h
- arch/m68k/include/asm/cacheflush_mm.h 1 addition, 0 deletionsarch/m68k/include/asm/cacheflush_mm.h
- arch/m68k/include/asm/cacheflush_no.h 1 addition, 0 deletionsarch/m68k/include/asm/cacheflush_no.h
- arch/microblaze/include/asm/cacheflush.h 1 addition, 0 deletionsarch/microblaze/include/asm/cacheflush.h
- arch/mips/include/asm/cacheflush.h 1 addition, 0 deletionsarch/mips/include/asm/cacheflush.h
- arch/mn10300/include/asm/cacheflush.h 1 addition, 0 deletionsarch/mn10300/include/asm/cacheflush.h
- arch/parisc/include/asm/cacheflush.h 1 addition, 0 deletionsarch/parisc/include/asm/cacheflush.h
- arch/powerpc/include/asm/cacheflush.h 1 addition, 0 deletionsarch/powerpc/include/asm/cacheflush.h
- arch/s390/include/asm/cacheflush.h 1 addition, 0 deletionsarch/s390/include/asm/cacheflush.h
- arch/score/include/asm/cacheflush.h 1 addition, 0 deletionsarch/score/include/asm/cacheflush.h
- arch/sh/include/asm/cacheflush.h 1 addition, 0 deletionsarch/sh/include/asm/cacheflush.h
- arch/sparc/include/asm/cacheflush_32.h 1 addition, 0 deletionsarch/sparc/include/asm/cacheflush_32.h
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