Re: [RFCv2][PATCH 2/5] arm: Implement ARCH_HAS_FORCE_CACHE

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Tue Aug 09 2016 - 17:56:27 EST


On 08/08/2016 10:49 AM, Laura Abbott wrote:
> arm may need the kernel_force_cache APIs to guarantee data consistency.
> Implement versions of these APIs based on the DMA APIs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 4 ++
> arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c | 119 --------------------------------------
> arch/arm/mm/flush.c | 115 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Why is the code moved between dma-mapping.c and flush.c? It was not
obvious while looking at these patches why this is needed.
--
Florian