[PATCH v3] ARM: L2 : Errata 588369: Clean & Invalidate do not invalidate clean lines

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 02:37:08PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 10:09 +0000, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> > @@ -139,7 +184,12 @@ static void l2x0_flush_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
> >                         spin_lock_irqsave(&l2x0_lock, flags);
> >                 }
> >         }
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_PL310_ERRATA_588369
> > +       cache_wait(base + L2X0_CLEAN_LINE_PA, 1);
> > +       cache_wait(base + L2X0_INV_LINE_PA, 1);
> > +#else
> >         cache_wait(base + L2X0_CLEAN_INV_LINE_PA, 1);
> > +#endif
> 
> I don't think we need to way on two separate registers here. AFAICT, bit
> 1 of those registers is shared for all the operations.
> 
> As a general comment, maybe an inline function called something like
> wait_writel(before/after) would be better than a lot of ifdefs in the
> code, especially if one has a different workaround other than using TI's
> secure monitor.

Since the bit is shared between all 'R7' registers, the ifdef above makes
no sense.  We can just wait on any R7 register - I suggest that bit of
code is left as-is.