Commit db1708fb authored by Russell King's avatar Russell King

[ARM] Add comments for newish functions in cacheflush.h

parent 4abebca3
......@@ -209,8 +209,21 @@ extern void dmac_flush_range(unsigned long, unsigned long);
#endif
/*
* flush_cache_vmap() is used when creating mappings (eg, via vmap,
* vmalloc, ioremap etc) in kernel space for pages. Since the
* direct-mappings of these pages may contain cached data, we need
* to do a full cache flush to ensure that writebacks don't corrupt
* data placed into these pages via the new mappings.
*/
#define flush_cache_vmap(start, end) flush_cache_all()
#define flush_cache_vunmap(start, end) flush_cache_all()
/*
* Copy user data from/to a page which is mapped into a different
* processes address space. Really, we want to allow our "user
* space" model to handle this.
*/
#define copy_to_user_page(vma, page, vaddr, dst, src, len) \
do { memcpy(dst, src, len); \
flush_icache_user_range(vma, page, vaddr, len); \
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