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@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/include/asm/dma-mapping.h | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/dma-mapping.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/dma-mapping.h index 1387dafdba2d..c6d3367be916 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, -- 2.14.1