Re: Rampant ext3/4 corruption on 2.6.34-rc7 with VIVT ARM (Marvell 88f5182)

From: Jamie Lokier
Date: Wed May 12 2010 - 18:22:25 EST


Shilimkar, Santosh wrote:
> There was a memory write barrier missing before the DMA descriptors
> are handed over to DMA controller.

On that note, are the cache flush functions implicit memory barriers?

-- Jamie
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