From 27ba0644ea9dfe6e7693abc85837b60e40583b96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:09:59 -0800 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/cachetlb.txt | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/cachetlb.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/cachetlb.txt b/Documentation/cachetlb.txt index d79b008e4a32..3f9f808b5119 100644 --- a/Documentation/cachetlb.txt +++ b/Documentation/cachetlb.txt @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.3