kernel: remove full cache flush in fuse_copy_do() for MIPS

This patch was introduced in commit r16412 for the brcm47xx target only
and then moved to generic in commit r32395. It was initially added
because of ticket #5186 and should fix some problems with fuse file
systems and MIPS caches. The commit comment in r32395 says that this a
generic problem in MIPS CPUs, but does not name any specifics about
that. There was a fix added to kernel 2.6.21 in commit commit
7575a49f20 "[MIPS] Implement flush_anon_page()." that should fix this
problem, but that was already available before both commits were done
to OpenWrt.

I just tested fuse with ntfs.3g without this patch on a BCM4704
(BMIPS3300 V0.6) SoC and haven't seen any problems. Someone reported
that removing this patch improves some fuse operations by 5 times on
some modern MIPS cores.
My test was only a simple "dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/zero bs=5000" to an
USB stick.

This patch removes the patch to OpenWrt, because I assume that it is
not needed any more and Felix, the orginal author, also thinks so.

Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 32 deletions

diff --git a/target/linux/generic/patches-3.18/309-mips_fuse_workaround.patch b/target/linux/generic/patches-3.18/309-mips_fuse_workaround.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 934b1198f4..0000000000
--- a/target/linux/generic/patches-3.18/309-mips_fuse_workaround.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
---- a/arch/mips/mm/cache.c
-+++ b/arch/mips/mm/cache.c
-@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ void (*__flush_cache_vunmap)(void);
- 
- void (*__flush_kernel_vmap_range)(unsigned long vaddr, int size);
- EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__flush_kernel_vmap_range);
-+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__flush_cache_all);
- void (*__invalidate_kernel_vmap_range)(unsigned long vaddr, int size);
- 
- /* MIPS specific cache operations */
---- a/fs/fuse/dev.c
-+++ b/fs/fuse/dev.c
-@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@
- #include <linux/swap.h>
- #include <linux/splice.h>
- #include <linux/aio.h>
-+#ifdef CONFIG_MIPS
-+#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
-+#endif
- 
- MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(FUSE_MINOR);
- MODULE_ALIAS("devname:fuse");
-@@ -749,6 +752,9 @@ static int fuse_copy_fill(struct fuse_co
- static int fuse_copy_do(struct fuse_copy_state *cs, void **val, unsigned *size)
- {
- 	unsigned ncpy = min(*size, cs->len);
-+#ifdef CONFIG_MIPS
-+	__flush_cache_all();
-+#endif
- 	if (val) {
- 		void *pgaddr = kmap_atomic(cs->pg);
- 		void *buf = pgaddr + cs->offset;