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authorLorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>2012-09-06 15:05:13 +0200
committerLorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>2012-09-25 12:20:25 +0200
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ARM: mm: implement LoUIS API for cache maintenance ops
ARM v7 architecture introduced the concept of cache levels and related control registers. New processors like A7 and A15 embed an L2 unified cache controller that becomes part of the cache level hierarchy. Some operations in the kernel like cpu_suspend and __cpu_disable do not require a flush of the entire cache hierarchy to DRAM but just the cache levels belonging to the Level of Unification Inner Shareable (LoUIS), which in most of ARM v7 systems correspond to L1. The current cache flushing API used in cpu_suspend and __cpu_disable, flush_cache_all(), ends up flushing the whole cache hierarchy since for v7 it cleans and invalidates all cache levels up to Level of Coherency (LoC) which cripples system performance when used in hot paths like hotplug and cpuidle. Therefore a new kernel cache maintenance API must be added to cope with latest ARM system requirements. This patch adds flush_cache_louis() to the ARM kernel cache maintenance API. This function cleans and invalidates all data cache levels up to the Level of Unification Inner Shareable (LoUIS) and invalidates the instruction cache for processors that support it (> v7). This patch also creates an alias of the cache LoUIS function to flush_kern_all for all processor versions prior to v7, so that the current cache flushing behaviour is unchanged for those processors. v7 cache maintenance code implements a cache LoUIS function that cleans and invalidates the D-cache up to LoUIS and invalidates the I-cache, according to the new API. Reviewed-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com> Tested-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
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diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S b/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
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@@ -299,6 +299,7 @@ ENTRY(\name\()_processor_functions)
ENTRY(\name\()_cache_fns)
.long \name\()_flush_icache_all
.long \name\()_flush_kern_cache_all
+ .long \name\()_flush_kern_cache_louis
.long \name\()_flush_user_cache_all
.long \name\()_flush_user_cache_range
.long \name\()_coherent_kern_range