Re: [patch][cft] zero-copy dma cd writing and ripping
Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Mon, 28 Oct 2002 15:55:33 +0100
On Mon, Oct 28 2002, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 04:42, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > This work reminds me that get_user_pages() (or it's callers)
> > > need to be doing some flush_dcache_page()
> >
> > Was wondering about that. Can you tell me what it needs? And what about
> > bio_unmap_user(), surely that needs to flush cache as well for reads?
>
> Documentation/cachetlb.txt describes where flush_dcache_page is needed.
> If that doesn't describe it enough for you, that is a bug and please
> tell me what part is confusing so I may make the document better.
Didn't know about that document, will read it first.
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Jens Axboe
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