[PATCH v2 0/8] ARM: V7M: Support caches

[Joachim Eastwood]

Hi Vladimir,

On 18 August 2016 at 16:57, Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin at arm.com> wrote:
> On 18/08/16 15:53, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 01:45:52PM +0100, Vladimir Murzin wrote:
>>> This patch set allows M-class cpus benefit of optional cache support.
>>> It originally was written by Jonny, I've been keeping it locally mainly
>>> rebasing over Linux versions.
>>>
>>> The original idea behind patches was to reuse existing cache handling
>>> code from v7A/R with help of extra macros to factor out cache handling
>>> logic (v7M cache operations are provided via memory mapped interface
>>> rather than co-processor instructions).
>>> However, that idea was rejected and starting form this (v2) version
>>> V7M cache logic lives into file and macros to indirect memory-mapped
>>> operations stay there locally since they make it easier to follow the
>>> code.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>>From a quick read through, the approach looks sane, and I think I'm
>> now happy with these.
>>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Is it acceptable if patches hang on a list for awhile, so people (I'm
> looking at Alex and  Szemző) can test them?

These patches doesn't seem to break anything on the cache-less
Cortex-M4 NXP LPC4357.

So FWIW:
Tested-by: Joachim Eastwood <manabian at gmail.com>


regards,
Joachim Eastwood