When flush all dcache, why the increasing step is 2?

[Catalin Marinas]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:51:07AM +0100, Li Haifeng wrote:
> For flush all data cache, the flush action begins from Level 0, then increase
> cache level by 1.
> 
> But in function v7_flush_dcache_all, the step is 2. IOW, it will just flush
> 0,2,4,6 level cache.
> As the following code, the step is stored in r10, and the increase line is "add
>     r10, r10, #2".

That's because the cache level is written in the CSSELR bits 3:1 (so no
bit 0). When the levels of cache is calculated (r3), it is also 2x.

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Catalin