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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>,
	bjornw@axis.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Missing cache flush.
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 19:48:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010606194846.B38@toy.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15132.40298.80954.434805@pizda.ninka.net> <15132.22933.859130.119059@pizda.ninka.net> <13942.991696607@redhat.com> <3B1C1872.8D8F1529@mandrakesoft.com> <15132.15829.322534.88410@pizda.ninka.net> <20010605155550.C22741@metastasis.f00f.org> <25587.991730769@redhat.com> <15132.40298.80954.434805@pizda.ninka.net> <25831.991731935@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <25831.991731935@redhat.com>; from dwmw2@infradead.org on Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:05:35AM +0100

Hi!

> What shall we call this function? The intuitive "flush_dcache_range" appears
> to have already been taken.


Please do not use *_dcache_*. It would confuse me with dentry cache.

Flush data cche range would be ok.

[BTW what about just rewriting it with 0xffs after you zero the block?
Someone already suggested that, and it seems ok.]
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-06-08 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-04 23:16 Missing cache flush David Woodhouse
2001-06-04 23:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-04 23:29 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-05  2:03 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-05  3:55   ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-06-05  5:28     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-06-05  6:49       ` Alan Cox
2001-06-05  8:29       ` Ingo Molnar
2001-06-05 15:10         ` Ralf Baechle
2001-06-05  8:46     ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-05  9:05       ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-05 12:42         ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-05 12:52           ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-05 12:48         ` David S. Miller
2001-06-06  8:32           ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-06-06 19:48         ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2001-06-05  9:11       ` David S. Miller
2001-06-05  9:29       ` kira brown
2001-06-05 17:16         ` Alan Cox
2001-06-06 19:44           ` Earyly Cyrix CPUs was " Pavel Machek
2001-06-08 16:00             ` Alan Cox
2001-06-05  9:43       ` Johan Adolfsson
2001-06-05  8:50     ` David S. Miller
2001-06-05 17:01       ` Jamie Lokier
2001-06-05 23:24         ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-06-06  8:43           ` James Sutherland
2001-06-05  4:01   ` David S. Miller
2001-06-05  2:04 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-05  9:17 ` Bjorn Wesen
2001-06-05 12:57   ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-06-05 15:17     ` Ralf Baechle
2001-06-05 17:41     ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-05 14:22   ` Vipin Malik
2001-06-05 14:40     ` Chris Wedgwood

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