mach-spear SMP questions
Alex Elder
elder at linaro.org
Thu Mar 27 09:33:38 EDT 2014
I'm doing some code cleanup and have a question about
something related to SMP in mach-spear. Can anyone
help me with these questions?
My question has to do with how secondary cores start for
SMP. Most machines need to send a wakeup event from the
boot core to each secondary core as it is told to start.
But mach-spear does not do this. I'd like to know if this
is an oversight, or confirm that this is simply not necessary
for this machine.
Also, while most machines touch a memory location and then
do a targeted cache involving only that location, mach-spear
does a full flush. Is the full flush really required for
some reason?
Thanks.
-Alex
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