[PATCH v2] ARM: l2c: add options to overwrite prefetching behavior

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Thu May 14 09:15:26 PDT 2015


On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 06:13:55PM +0200, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> These options make it possible to overwrites the data and instruction
> prefetching behavior of the arm pl310 cache controller.
> 
> We have to set these values in the aux and the prefetch register,
> because these two bits in the aux registers are mapped to the prefetch
> register. If only the prefetch register is changed there is an
> inconsistence in the state in this driver.

No there isn't.  Just set the bits in the prefetch register.

Writing to the prefetch register changes the state of the bits in the
auxiliary control register at the same time.

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