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authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>2015-02-11 01:09:59 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-02-11 01:30:31 +0300
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downloadlinux-27ba0644ea9dfe6e7693abc85837b60e40583b96.tar.xz
rmap: drop support of non-linear mappings
We don't create non-linear mappings anymore. Let's drop code which handles them in rmap. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -317,10 +317,10 @@ maps this page at its virtual address.
about doing this.
The idea is, first at flush_dcache_page() time, if
- page->mapping->i_mmap is an empty tree and ->i_mmap_nonlinear
- an empty list, just mark the architecture private page flag bit.
- Later, in update_mmu_cache(), a check is made of this flag bit,
- and if set the flush is done and the flag bit is cleared.
+ page->mapping->i_mmap is an empty tree, just mark the architecture
+ private page flag bit. Later, in update_mmu_cache(), a check is
+ made of this flag bit, and if set the flush is done and the flag
+ bit is cleared.
IMPORTANT NOTE: It is often important, if you defer the flush,
that the actual flush occurs on the same CPU