[PATCH V4 5/5] arm: mvebu: Added SMP support for Armada XP

Gregory CLEMENT gregory.clement at free-electrons.com
Tue Nov 20 12:06:00 EST 2012


On 11/20/2012 06:01 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 04:49:29PM +0000, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
>> On 11/20/2012 05:40 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
>>>
>>> ENTRY(armada_xp_secondary_startup)
>>> 	ldr     r0, =ARMADA_XP_CFB_BASE
>>> 	mrc     p15, 0, r1, c0, c0, 5
>>> 	and     r1, r1, #0xF
>>> 	adr	lr, BSYM(secondary_startup)
>>>
>>> 	/* Fallthrough */
>>>
>>> ENTRY(ll_set_cpu_coherent)
>>> ...
>>> ENDPROC(ll_set_cpu_coherent)
>>> ENDPROC(armada_xp_secondary_startup)
>>>
>>> what do you think?
>>>
>>
>> I prefer to keep them separate, as we can use coherency without SMP.
>> That's why I create the coherency_ll.S file instead of putting everything
>> in this file.
> 
> Hmm, can you elaborate a bit more on coherency without SMP please? Do these
> controls also affect IO coherency?

I meant Hardware IO coherency which is the purpose on the other patch set:
"Add hardware I/O coherency support for Armada 370/XP"

> 
> Will
> 


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