[PATCH v2 1/2] ARM: use cache type functions for arch_get_unmapped_area

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Thu Nov 17 17:37:14 EST 2011


Hi Rob,

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 09:47:05PM +0000, Rob Herring wrote:
> From: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
> 
> There are already cache type decoding functions, so use those instead
> of custom decode code which only works for ARMv6.
> 
> This change also correctly enables cache colour alignment on Cortex-A9
> whose I-cache is aliasing VIPT.

You can probably drop this paragraph.

With that,

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>

but yes, it would be nice to see this in -next for a bit.

Cheers,

Will



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