block: add helpers to run flush_dcache_page() against a bio and a request's pages

Mtdblock driver doesn't call flush_dcache_page for pages in request.  So,
this causes problems on architectures where the icache doesn't fill from
the dcache or with dcache aliases.  The patch fixes this.

The ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE symbol was introduced to avoid
pointless empty cache-thrashing loops on architectures for which
flush_dcache_page() is a no-op.  Every architecture was provided with this
flush pages on architectires where ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE is
equal 1 or do nothing otherwise.

See "fix mtd_blkdevs problem with caches on some architectures" discussion
on LKML for more information.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Loginov <isloginov@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Horton <phorton@bitbox.co.uk>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/bio.c b/fs/bio.c
index 12da5db..e23a63f 100644
--- a/fs/bio.c
+++ b/fs/bio.c
@@ -1393,6 +1393,18 @@ void bio_check_pages_dirty(struct bio *bio)
 	}
 }
 
+#if ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE
+void bio_flush_dcache_pages(struct bio *bi)
+{
+	int i;
+	struct bio_vec *bvec;
+
+	bio_for_each_segment(bvec, bi, i)
+		flush_dcache_page(bvec->bv_page);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(bio_flush_dcache_pages);
+#endif
+
 /**
  * bio_endio - end I/O on a bio
  * @bio:	bio