Commit f68aa5b4 authored May 24, 2011 by Mike Frysinger Committed by Linus Torvalds May 25, 2011

asm-generic/cacheflush.h: flush icache when copying to user pages



The copy_to_user_page() function is supposed to flush the icache on the
memory that was written, but the current asm-generic version lacks that
logic.  While normally it isn't a big deal as the asm-generic version of
icache flushing is a stub, it is a deal for ports that want to use the
asm-generic version as a baseline and then overlay its own specific parts
(like icache flushing).

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent cfa54a0f

include/asm-generic/cacheflush.h

+4 −1

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		@@ -24,7 +24,10 @@
		#define flush_cache_vunmap(start, end) do { } while (0)

		#define copy_to_user_page(vma, page, vaddr, dst, src, len) \
		memcpy(dst, src, len)
		do { \
		memcpy(dst, src, len); \
		flush_icache_user_range(vma, page, vaddr, len); \
		} while (0)
		#define copy_from_user_page(vma, page, vaddr, dst, src, len) \
		memcpy(dst, src, len)