Re: [PATCH v2 01/28] csky,sparc: Declare flush_dcache_folio()

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Wed Nov 17 2021 - 04:52:39 EST


On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 2:22 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 10:33:01PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > I see how this works no, but it is pretty horrible. Why not something
> > simple like the patch below? If/when an architecture actually
> > wants to override flush_dcache_folio we can find out how to best do
> > it:
>
> I'll stick this one into -next and see if anything blows up:
>
> From 14f55de74c68a3eb058cfdbf81414148b9bdaac7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2021 17:13:35 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] Add linux/cacheflush.h
>
> Many architectures do not include asm-generic/cacheflush.h, so turn
> the includes on their head and add linux/cacheflush.h which includes
> asm/cacheflush.h.
>
> Move the flush_dcache_folio() declaration from asm-generic/cacheflush.h
> to linux/cacheflush.h and change linux/highmem.h to include
> linux/cacheflush.h instead of asm/cacheflush.h so that all necessary
> places will see flush_dcache_folio().
>
> More functions should have their default implementations moved in the
> future, but those are for follow-on patches. This fixes csky, sparc and
> sparc64 which were missed in the commit which added flush_dcache_folio().
>
> Fixes: 08b0b0059bf1 ("mm: Add flush_dcache_folio()")
> Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> arch/m68k/include/asm/cacheflush_mm.h | 1 -

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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