[PATCH 2/8] ARM: Implement read/write for ownership in theARMv6 DMA cache ops

Ronen Shitrit rshitrit at marvell.com
Mon May 17 07:27:50 EDT 2010


Performance wise we prefer to enable it...
But it seems to be on the safe side we will disable it.

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Catalin Marinas [mailto:catalin.marinas at arm.com] 
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 2:08 PM
To: Ronen Shitrit
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux; linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/8] ARM: Implement read/write for ownership in theARMv6 DMA cache ops

> In case of Cortex-A9 (ARMv7), the TRM states clearly that it can do
> speculative loads into the L1 D-cache and this can be disabled via a bit
> in the auxiliary control register. Do you have a similar bit on your
> ARMv6 MP processor?
> 
> [Ronen Shitrit] Yes.

So, use it :)

-- 
Catalin




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