disabling MMU of ARMv7-A
Russell King - ARM Linux
linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Apr 7 03:33:12 PDT 2014
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 10:56:36AM +0100, Dave Martin wrote:
> Agreed -- CONFIG_MMU=n does not need to imply that the MMU is turned off:
> everything must be indentity-mapped (VA = PA), but it is still desirable
> to define attributes. For SMP, it's *necessary* to define attributes,
> otherwise we can't guarantee working spinlocks etc.
It's also necessary for UP as well, as the load-exclusive and
store-exclusive must still work. Remember these instructions get used
for more than just spinlocks.
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