[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/include/linux/highmem.h b/include/linux/highmem.h
index 8800a35efe74..3bc7bcb3c252 100644
--- a/include/linux/highmem.h
+++ b/include/linux/highmem.h
@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@ static inline void memclear_highpage_flush(struct page *page, unsigned int offse
 	kaddr = kmap_atomic(page, KM_USER0);
 	memset((char *)kaddr + offset, 0, size);
 	flush_dcache_page(page);
-	flush_page_to_ram(page);
 	kunmap_atomic(kaddr, KM_USER0);
 }