Re: [patch 5/6] ps3: BD/DVD/CD-ROM Storage Driver

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 16 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > > Ah, that explains it. flush_dcache_page() is used in some drivers.
> > > > I'll update my patches. Thanks for the comments!
> > > 
> > > Does this look OK?
> > >   - Replaced KM_USER0 by KM_IRQ0 (all routines are either called from an
> > >     interrupt handler, from .request_fn (ps3disk), or from .queuecommand
> > >     (ps3rom))
> > 
> > That looks good.
> > 
> > >   - Add a call to flush_kernel_dcache_page() in routines that write to buffers
> > 
> > Hmm, I would have thought a flush_dcache_page() would be more
> > appropriate, the backing could be page cache pages.
> 
> OK, I'll change it to flush_dcache_page().

Upon closer look, while flush_kernel_dcache_page() is a no-op on ppc64,
flush_dcache_page() isn't. So I'd prefer to not call it if not really needed.

And according to James, flush_kernel_dcache_page() should be sufficient...

So I'm getting puzzled again...

With kind regards,
 
Geert Uytterhoeven
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