[Q] L1_CACHE_BYTES on flush_pfn_alias function.
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Mon Jan 27 11:43:37 EST 2014
Please do not top-post.
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 05:13:43AM +0000, Jungseung Lee wrote:
> Not to flush some more bytes. In the scenario, they can *omit* to flush last 32 bytes.
>
> L1_CACHE_BYTES = 64 (ARM v7, CA9)
>
> asm( "mcrr p15, 0, %1, %0, c14\n"
> " mcr p15, 0, %2, c7, c10, 4"
> :
> : "r" (to), "r" (to + PAGE_SIZE - L1_CACHE_BYTES), "r" (zero)
> : "cc");
Ah, I got it now. I think this should be (to + PAGE_SIZE - 1). My
reading of the ARM ARM is that the bottom bits of the address are
ignored by mcrr.
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Catalin
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