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authorsaeed bishara <saeed@marvell.com>2011-05-16 11:25:21 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2011-05-20 22:39:17 +0100
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ARM: 6899/1: fix the note about dcache lazy flushing for SMP systems
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Bishara <saeed@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/flush.c b/arch/arm/mm/flush.c
index 2b269c9..b7f6980 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/flush.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/flush.c
@@ -275,7 +275,8 @@ void __sync_icache_dcache(pte_t pteval)
* kernel cache lines for later. Otherwise, we assume we have
* aliasing mappings.
*
- * Note that we disable the lazy flush for SMP.
+ * Note that we disable the lazy flush for SMP configurations where
+ * the cache maintenance operations are not automatically broadcasted.
*/
void flush_dcache_page(struct page *page)
{
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