[PATCH v4 0/2] arm64: change PoC D-cache flush to PoU

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Thu Dec 17 03:51:46 PST 2015


On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 01:38:30AM -0800, Ashok Kumar wrote:
> For keeping I and D coherent, dcache flush till PoU(Point of Unification)
> should be sufficient instead of doing till PoC(Point of coherence).
> In SoC with more levels of cache, there could be a performance hit in doing
> flush till PoC as __flush_dcache_area does both flush and invalidate.
> Introduced new API __clean_dcache_area_pou which does only clean till PoU.
> 
> Also deferred dcache flush in __cpu_copy_user_page to __sync_icache_dcache.

Thanks, Ashok. I've queued this locally and will push out once I've
given it a good kicking.

Will



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