Re: CVS Update@oss.sgi.com: linux

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 04:51:19PM -0700, Kanoj Sarcar wrote:

> The act of flushing the L2 cache, should include flushing the L1
> cache, whether done by software or processor provided primitives, 
> to guarantee the inclusion principle.

The inclusion principle is not true for all processor types.

> Notwithstanding, feel free to add in a call to flush_cache_l1()
> (and I don't know whether you want to flush the i and d caches
> both, or just one), making sure there are no compile breakages.
> (the breakage that I fixed was due to the fact that there is no
> __flush_cache_all for mips64).

Sorry, that line leaked in from my private tree.

  Ralf