[PATCH 2/2] ARM startup: Do call __mmu_cache_flush during startup
Sascha Hauer
s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Wed May 23 16:29:00 EDT 2012
Traditionally we call __mmu_cache_flush in early startup. There
is a problem with armv7 and hierarchical caches though, on these
systems __mmu_cache_flush uses the stack. Appearantly this was
seldomly a problem, because most of these systems have a ROM
bootloader which sets up some stack, but on a special i.MX6 system
this failed badly. We should not have to flush caches here. Every
sane system should pass control to the bootloader without stale
entries in the caches *), so it should be a safe assumption that the
cache flush can be removed.
Since __mmu_cache_flush is not called from early code anymore we can
also move it to the regular text section.
Be brave and give it a try.
*) omap3 seems to be a exception to this, but this has a cache flush
in arch_init_lowlevel already
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
---
arch/arm/cpu/cache-armv4.S | 1 -
arch/arm/cpu/cache-armv5.S | 1 -
arch/arm/cpu/cache-armv6.S | 1 -
arch/arm/cpu/cache-armv7.S | 1 -
arch/arm/cpu/start.c | 6 ------
5 files changed, 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/cache-armv4.S b/arch/arm/cpu/cache-armv4.S
index fc53653..6d03565 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/cache-armv4.S
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/cache-armv4.S
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ ENTRY(__mmu_cache_off)
mov pc, lr
ENDPROC(__mmu_cache_off)
-__BARE_INIT
ENTRY(__mmu_cache_flush)
mrc p15, 0, r6, c0, c0 @ get processor ID
mov r2, #64*1024 @ default: 32K dcache size (*2)
diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/cache-armv5.S b/arch/arm/cpu/cache-armv5.S
index d870e6b..a1193a6 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/cache-armv5.S
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/cache-armv5.S
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ ENTRY(__mmu_cache_off)
mov pc, lr
ENDPROC(__mmu_cache_off)
-__BARE_INIT
ENTRY(__mmu_cache_flush)
1: mrc p15, 0, r15, c7, c14, 3 @ test,clean,invalidate D cache
bne 1b
diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/cache-armv6.S b/arch/arm/cpu/cache-armv6.S
index 9de76da..335bac2 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/cache-armv6.S
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/cache-armv6.S
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ ENTRY(__mmu_cache_off)
#endif
mov pc, lr
-__BARE_INIT
ENTRY(__mmu_cache_flush)
mov r1, #0
mcr p15, 0, r1, c7, c14, 0 @ clean+invalidate D
diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/cache-armv7.S b/arch/arm/cpu/cache-armv7.S
index 416498d..28a6315 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/cache-armv7.S
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/cache-armv7.S
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ ENTRY(__mmu_cache_off)
mov pc, r12
ENDPROC(__mmu_cache_off)
-__BARE_INIT
ENTRY(__mmu_cache_flush)
mrc p15, 0, r10, c0, c1, 5 @ read ID_MMFR1
tst r10, #0xf << 16 @ hierarchical cache (ARMv7)
diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/start.c b/arch/arm/cpu/start.c
index 0fcc950..f2f6173 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/start.c
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/start.c
@@ -75,12 +75,6 @@ void __naked __bare_init reset(void)
#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_LOWLEVEL_INIT
arch_init_lowlevel();
#endif
- __asm__ __volatile__ (
- "bl __mmu_cache_flush;"
- :
- :
- : "r0", "r1", "r2", "r3", "r6", "r10", "r12", "lr", "cc", "memory"
- );
/* disable MMU stuff and caches */
r = get_cr();
--
1.7.10
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