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, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 71da5111120..718897e6d37 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -2358,6 +2358,25 @@ void blk_rq_bio_prep(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq,
 		rq->rq_disk = bio->bi_bdev->bd_disk;
 }
 
+#if ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE
+/**
+ * rq_flush_dcache_pages - Helper function to flush all pages in a request
+ * @rq: the request to be flushed
+ *
+ * Description:
+ *     Flush all pages in @rq.
+ */
+void rq_flush_dcache_pages(struct request *rq)
+{
+	struct req_iterator iter;
+	struct bio_vec *bvec;
+
+	rq_for_each_segment(bvec, rq, iter)
+		flush_dcache_page(bvec->bv_page);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rq_flush_dcache_pages);
+#endif
+
 /**
  * blk_lld_busy - Check if underlying low-level drivers of a device are busy
  * @q : the queue of the device being checked