[PATCH] ARM: add clean and flush_dcache_all to ARM cache API

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Fri Nov 5 11:08:13 EDT 2010


On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 04:01:47PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> This patch adds functions to flush and clean the entire data cache.
> Since the existing flush/clean range functions take more time to
> flush/clean the entire data cache, they cannot be used in
> performance-critical situations:

This is something that should be decided (as we already do for some
processors) inside those methods.  There's no need for new methods.



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