[PATCH] ARM: setup_mm_for_reboot(): use flush_cache_louis()
Will Deacon
will.deacon at arm.com
Tue Nov 6 16:41:37 EST 2012
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 09:12:27PM +0000, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>
> ... instead of flush_cache_all(). The later unconditionally flushes
> the L2 cache on ARMv7 architectures such as Cortex A15 and A7 which
> is costly and unnecessary in some scenarios where setup_mm_for_reboot()
> is used. If L2 has to be flushed as well, it should already be done
> separately on other architectures anyway.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico at linaro.org>
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/idmap.c b/arch/arm/mm/idmap.c
> index ab88ed4f8e..2c61085a10 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/idmap.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/idmap.c
> @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ early_initcall(init_static_idmap);
> void setup_mm_for_reboot(void)
> {
> /* Clean and invalidate L1. */
> - flush_cache_all();
> + flush_cache_louis();
>
> /* Switch to the identity mapping. */
> cpu_switch_mm(idmap_pgd, &init_mm);
We could probably even predicate this on the half-implemented
TLB_CAN_READ_FROM_L1_CACHE option, but that can come later.
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Will
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