commit 8b4ae3342dbcb6a0def3a7b3ae7aee633a81e758 Author: James Bottomley Date: Wed Dec 22 10:24:36 2010 -0600 eliminate special FLUSH flag from page table This was used to flush a region even if the page table entry had been cleared. In theory this was never necessary, but now we've switched to alias based flushing, the whole set of code associated with it can be dumped. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley Signed-off-by: James Bottomley commit f311847c2fcebd81912e2f0caf8a461dec28db41 Author: James Bottomley Date: Wed Dec 22 10:22:11 2010 -0600 parisc: flush pages through tmpalias space The kernel has an 8M tmpailas space (originally designed for copying and clearing pages but now only used for clearing). The idea is to place zeros into the cache above a physical page rather than into the physical page and flush the cache, because often the zeros end up being replaced quickly anyway. We can also use the tmpalias space for flushing a page. The difference here is that we have to do tmpalias processing in the non access data and instruction traps. The principle is the same: as long as we know the physical address and have a virtual address congruent to the real one, the flush will be effective. In order to use the tmpalias space, the icache miss path has to be enhanced to check for the alias region to make the fic instruction effective. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley