L1 & L2 cache flush sequence on CortexA5 MPcore w.r.t low power modes

Antti Miettinen ananaza at iki.fi
Tue Dec 24 12:52:48 EST 2013


Sorry to still bring up an old thread, but this still bothers me..

Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com> writes:
> [..] dirty cache lines can be migrated across
> processors caches. [..]

What are the conditions under which this can happen? Which CPUs in
reality migrate dirty lines between caches? And C==0 does prevent
migrations as well as local allocations?

	--Antti



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