[PATCH] Remove flush_page_to_ram()

From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>

This patch removes the long deprecated flush_page_to_ram.  We have
two different schemes for doing this cache flushing stuff, the old
flush_page_to_ram way and the not so old flush_dcache_page etc. way:
see DaveM's Documentation/cachetlb.txt.  Keeping flush_page_to_ram
around is confusing, and makes it harder to get this done right.

All architectures are updated, but the only ones where it amounts
to more than deleting a line or two are m68k, mips, mips64 and v850.

I followed a prescription from DaveM (though not to the letter), that
those arches with non-nop flush_page_to_ram need to do what it did
in their clear_user_page and copy_user_page and flush_dcache_page.

Dave is consterned that, in the v850 nb85e case, this patch leaves its
flush_dcache_page as was, uses it in clear_user_page and copy_user_page,
instead of making them all flush icache as well.  That may be wrong:
I'm just hesitant to add cruft blindly, changing a flush_dcache macro
to flush icache too; and naively hope that the necessary flush_icache
calls are already in place.  Miles, please let us know which way is
right for v850 nb85e - thanks.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 24e8bc0c449a..455da3c362e5 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -314,7 +314,6 @@ void put_dirty_page(struct task_struct * tsk, struct page *page, unsigned long a
 	}
 	lru_cache_add_active(page);
 	flush_dcache_page(page);
-	flush_page_to_ram(page);
 	set_pte(pte, pte_mkdirty(pte_mkwrite(mk_pte(page, PAGE_COPY))));
 	pte_chain = page_add_rmap(page, pte, pte_chain);
 	pte_unmap(pte);