[PATCH] ARM: cache: flush to LoUU instead of LoUIS on uniprocessor CPUs
Santosh Shilimkar
santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Thu Dec 20 02:06:20 EST 2012
On Monday 17 December 2012 09:40 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> flush_cache_louis flushes the D-side caches to the point of unification
> inner-shareable. On uniprocessor CPUs, this is defined as zero and
> therefore no flushing will take place. Rather than invent a new interface
> for UP systems, instead use our SMP_ON_UP patching code to read the
> LoUU from the CLIDR instead.
>
> Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi at arm.com>
> Tested-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski at gmx.de>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> ---
Looks reasonable idea.
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com>
> arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S b/arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S
> index cd95664..7539ec2 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S
> @@ -44,8 +44,10 @@ ENDPROC(v7_flush_icache_all)
> ENTRY(v7_flush_dcache_louis)
> dmb @ ensure ordering with previous memory accesses
> mrc p15, 1, r0, c0, c0, 1 @ read clidr, r0 = clidr
> - ands r3, r0, #0xe00000 @ extract LoUIS from clidr
> - mov r3, r3, lsr #20 @ r3 = LoUIS * 2
> + ALT_SMP(ands r3, r0, #(7 << 21)) @ extract LoUIS from clidr
> + ALT_UP(ands r3, r0, #(7 << 27)) @ extract LoUU from clidr
> + ALT_SMP(mov r3, r3, lsr #20) @ r3 = LoUIS * 2
> + ALT_UP(mov r3, r3, lsr #26) @ r3 = LoUU * 2
> moveq pc, lr @ return if level == 0
> mov r10, #0 @ r10 (starting level) = 0
> b flush_levels @ start flushing cache levels
>
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