[PATCH 00/10] ARM: V7M: Support caches

Alexandre Torgue alexandre.torgue at st.com
Mon Jun 13 09:09:29 PDT 2016


Hi Vladimir,

On 06/13/2016 05:02 PM, Vladimir Murzin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patch set allows M-class cpus benefit of optional cache support.
> It originaly was written by Jonny, I've been keeping it localy mainly
> rebasing over Linux versions.
>
> The main idea behind patches is to reuse existing cache handling code
> from v7A/R. In case v7M cache operations are provided via memory
> mapped interface rather than co-processor instructions, so extra
> macros have been introduced to factor out cache handling logic and
> low-level operations.
>
> Along with the v7M cache support the first user (Cortex-M7) is
> introduced.
>
> Patches were tested on MPS2 platform with Cortex-M3/M4/M7. The later
> one showed significant boot speed-up.
>
> Based on 4.7-rc3.
>
> Thanks!
> Vladimir
>

Thanks for the series.
Did you change something in those patches compare to patches you sent in 
the RFC ?

Regards.

Alex





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