lib/scatterlist: add a flags to signalize mapping direction
authorSebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:19:12 +0000 (10:19 +0200)
committerPierre Ossman <pierre@ossman.eu>
Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:28:45 +0000 (12:28 +0200)
sg_miter_start() is currently unaware of the direction of the copy
process (to or from the scatter list). It is important to know the
direction because the page has to be flushed in case the data written
is seen on a different mapping in user land on cache incoherent
architectures.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Acked-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <pierre@ossman.eu>

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