[PATCH V4 07/62] ST SPEAr13XX: Adding machine specific src files

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:33:09AM +0530, Shiraz Hashim wrote:
> Hello Russell,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:06:55AM +0800, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > Do you really need to sync back to L2, or will a dsb() do here - and
> > as the spinlock code uses dsb() + sev() together, would it make sense
> > to combine the two?  (dsb() is required to ensure all previous writes
> > are visible prior to the sev() executing.)
> 
> Presently L2 cache is initialized after we bootup secondary CPU but
> one can have the possibility of initializing L2 earlier also.
> So this would be safer.

It shouldn't make any difference as we explicitly flush the required
data for the secondary while it is incoherent out of L2 into RAM -
that being secondary_data and pen_release.