block: add helpers to run flush_dcache_page() against a bio and a request's pages

Mtdblock driver doesn't call flush_dcache_page for pages in request.  So,
this causes problems on architectures where the icache doesn't fill from
the dcache or with dcache aliases.  The patch fixes this.

The ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE symbol was introduced to avoid
pointless empty cache-thrashing loops on architectures for which
flush_dcache_page() is a no-op.  Every architecture was provided with this
flush pages on architectires where ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE is
equal 1 or do nothing otherwise.

See "fix mtd_blkdevs problem with caches on some architectures" discussion
on LKML for more information.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Loginov <isloginov@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Horton <phorton@bitbox.co.uk>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/cacheflush_64.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/cacheflush_64.h
index c43321729b3b..b95384033e89 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/cacheflush_64.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/cacheflush_64.h
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ extern void flush_dcache_page_all(struct mm_struct *mm, struct page *page);
 #endif
 
 extern void __flush_dcache_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
+#define ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE 1
 extern void flush_dcache_page(struct page *page);
 
 #define flush_icache_page(vma, pg)	do { } while(0)