From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 08:06:22 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: x86: make dma_cache_sync a no-op
X-Git-Tag: v4.15-rc1~121^2~9
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=95e499fc7fe9c58efedc079634582164de6bbd90;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git

x86: make dma_cache_sync a no-op

x86 does not implement DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT allocations, so it doesn't
make any sense to do any work in dma_cache_sync given that it must be a
no-op when dma_alloc_attrs returns coherent memory.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
---

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/dma-mapping.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/dma-mapping.h
index 1387dafdba2d2..c6d3367be9168 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/dma-mapping.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/dma-mapping.h
@@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ static inline void
 dma_cache_sync(struct device *dev, void *vaddr, size_t size,
 	enum dma_data_direction dir)
 {
-	flush_write_buffers();
 }
 
 static inline unsigned long dma_alloc_coherent_mask(struct device *dev,