[PATCH v2 09/31] arm64: Cache maintenance routines

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Aug 17 06:07:29 EDT 2012


On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:57:20AM +0100, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 August 2012 11:22 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > +ENTRY(__cpuc_flush_dcache_all)
>
> We have discussed the need of cache maintenance by
> level kind of API for ARMv7 (A15).
> 
> Shouldn't we add such API for arm64 as well ?

Yes, at some point we'll probably add but we'll discuss it again when
actually needed. I wouldn't define new API now that's not used by any
AArch64 code.

-- 
Catalin



More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list