[PATCH] powerpc: Fix __flush_icache_range on 44x

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Aug 18 07:46:28 EST 2009


On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 12:07 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> 
> Olof pointed out that we could probably do the iccci before the icbi loop and
> just skip that loop entirely on 44x.  This is most certainly valid, but at
> this particular moment I don't have time to try and reproduce the issue with
> an alternative fix and I wanted to get _something_ out there to fix the issue.  
> 
> I suck for that, I know.

Well, I can massage your patch if you want. The fact is, the icbi loop
and iccci are definitely redundant :-)

Cheers,
Ben.



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