[PATCHv2 for soc 3/4] arm: Add v7_invalidate_l1 to cache-v7.S

[Santosh Shilimkar]

On Friday 01 February 2013 06:18 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 05:14:11PM +0530, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
>> On Friday 01 February 2013 05:02 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 04:59:44PM +0530, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
>>>> Now since we are moving the code under common place, probably we should
>>>> update this a function a bit so that it invalidates the CPU cache till
>>>> line of unification. Just to be consistent with other flush API.
>>>
>>> Hmm.  Do you really want a CPU being brought up to do that to the PoU,
>>> every time that it is brought up?  I thought you wanted to get rid of
>>> that kind of stuff from the hotplug paths so that a CPU being brought
>>> up/taken down doesn't affect the caches for the other CPUs within the
>>> inner sharable domain.
>>>
>> You are right. We already git rid of the flush of all cache levels
>> in hotplug and wakeup paths and now it is restricted till the PoU.
>>
>> Assuming for the current v7 machines, PoU is L2, invalidating the cache
>> *till* PoU means only CPU local cache. So the API will in a way
>> invalidate only local cache.
>
> Err, you want to _invalidate_ the caches down to the point of I/D/TLB
> unification?  Are you really sure you want to do that on a system
> here other CPUs are running?
>
> Even going down to the LoUIS, that point is the point at which the
> _other_ CPUs may be sharing caches.
>
> And invalidating those caches while the other CPUs are running on
> secondary CPU startup will be VERY VERY VERY bad.
>
Absolutly and my intention was never to invalidate all the cache
levels. When I said lous, I mean till that point and not including
that and next cache levels. May be my terminology isn't accurate.

Regards,
Santosh