Re: USB mass storage and ARM cache coherency

[Catalin Marinas]

On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 08:23 +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Seems like ARM has requirement other architectures do not, that is
> > > a) not documented anywhere
> > > b) causes problems
> >
> > Well, ARM is pretty similar to other architectures in this respect. And
> > I'm sure other architectures have similar problems, only that they only
> > become visible in some circumstances they may not have encountered (i.e.
> > PIO drivers + filesystem that doesn't call flush_dcache_page like ext*).
> > Some other architectures may do heavier flushing
> >
> > Of course, a Documentation/arm/cachetlb.txt file would make sense.
> 
> Actually, short/simple documentation for driver authors would be even
> better. Then you can claim it is bug in driver :-).

That would help, but only once we agree whether it's a driver bug or the
arch code needs changing.

-- 
Catalin

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