[PATCH 2/5] spi: pl022: use generic DMA slave configuration if possible

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Fri Feb 8 11:28:29 EST 2013


On Friday 08 February 2013 16:22:48 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> If it's DMA _to_ a device, then we will only ever clean the lines prior to
> a transfer, never invalidate them.  So that's not really a concern.  (There
> better not be any dirty cache lines associated with the empty zero page
> either.)

Right, makes sense. I thought I had read about a CPU that
could not flush a cache line without also invalidating
it, but that must have been something other than ARM,
or maybe I'm misremembering it.

	Arnd



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