[RFC PATCH 6/6] ARM: mm: update __v7_setup() to the new LoUIS cache maintenance API

Lorenzo Pieralisi lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com
Thu Sep 13 06:20:51 EDT 2012


From: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com>

The ARMv7 processor setup function __v7_setup() cleans and invalidates the
CPU cache before enabling MMU to start the CPU with a clean CPU local cache.

But on ARMv7 architectures like Cortex-[A15/A8], this code will end
up flushing the L2 caches(up to level of Coherency) which is undesirable
and expensive. The setup functions are used in the CPU hotplug scenario too
and hence flushing all cache levels should be avoided.

This patch replaces the cache flushing call with the newly introduced
v7 dcache LoUIS API where only cache levels up to LoUIS are cleaned and
invalidated when a processors executes __v7_setup which is the expected
behavior.

For processors like A9 and A5 where the L2 cache is an outer one the
behavior should be unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
index c2e2b66..846d279 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ __v7_ca15mp_setup:
 __v7_setup:
 	adr	r12, __v7_setup_stack		@ the local stack
 	stmia	r12, {r0-r5, r7, r9, r11, lr}
-	bl	v7_flush_dcache_all
+	bl      v7_flush_dcache_louis
 	ldmia	r12, {r0-r5, r7, r9, r11, lr}
 
 	mrc	p15, 0, r0, c0, c0, 0		@ read main ID register
-- 
1.7.12





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