Thread (9 messages) flat view 9 messages, 4 authors, 2012-08-17

Discontiguous memory and cacheflush

From: Russell King - ARM Linux <hidden>
Date: 2012-08-17 21:03:49

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 04:53:44PM +0100, Jonathan Austin wrote:
(cacheflush.h:257)
#define flush_cache_user_range(start,end) \
        __cpuc_coherent_user_range((start) & PAGE_MASK, PAGE_ALIGN(end))

Does that have a bearing on what you're doing?
I'm going to do some digging over the weekend, and work out why that
was added.  I don't think it used to be the case that it flushed an
entire page.
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