Re: [PATCHSET] block: fix PIO cache coherency bug

From: James Bottomley
Date: Thu Mar 23 2006 - 09:29:09 EST


On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 01:26 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Okay by me, although I think we also need to fix flush_dcache_page()
> such that it doesn't abruptly enable irq after itself. That's just
> broken. I'll make some kmap wrappers such that callers don't have to try
> too hard to get synchronization correct.

Andrew's taken the flush_kernel_dcache_page() changes, so if you can
re-roll your kmap/kunmap patch in the next week or so (before Linus goes
-rc) we might get it into 2.6.17.

James


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