L2 cache suspend/resume
Shawn Guo
shawn.guo at linaro.org
Sun Apr 6 04:40:35 PDT 2014
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 12:27:00PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> While looking through the L2 resume code paths, I notice that:
>
> * exynos
> * imx
> * tegra
>
> all resume their L2 caches from assembly code, rather than using
> outer_disable() before cpu_suspend(), and outer_resume() afterwards.
> From what I can see, these are all running in the secure world, so that
> isn't the reason.
>
> What is the reason for this difference? Can these three be converted to
> the outer_disable()...outer_resume() method?
For imx, the L2 power and therefore the memory array is retained in
suspend. We do not want to call outer_disable() to have these data
flushed, and need to restore L2 controller before MMU is enabled.
Shawn
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