ARM: 6899/1: fix the note about dcache lazy flushing for SMP systems
authorsaeed bishara <saeed@marvell.com>
Mon, 16 May 2011 10:25:21 +0000 (11:25 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Fri, 20 May 2011 21:39:17 +0000 (22:39 +0100)
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Bishara <saeed@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
arch/arm/mm/flush.c

index 2b269c95552405552ef23be261578cdd19c840cb..b7f69800348fa1389975dcbf2fdedae2510fa2f0 100644 (file)
@@ -275,7 +275,8 @@ void __sync_icache_dcache(pte_t pteval)
  *  kernel cache lines for later.  Otherwise, we assume we have
  *  aliasing mappings.
  *
- * Note that we disable the lazy flush for SMP.
+ * Note that we disable the lazy flush for SMP configurations where
+ * the cache maintenance operations are not automatically broadcasted.
  */
 void flush_dcache_page(struct page *page)
 {