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The DCache clean & ICache invalidation requirements for instructions to be data coherence are discoverable through new fields in CTR_EL0. The following two control bits DIC and IDC were defined for this purpose. No need to perform point of unification cache maintenance operations from software on systems where CPU caches are transparent. This patch optimize the three functions __flush_cache_user_range(), clean_dcache_area_pou() and invalidate_icache_range() if the hardware reports CTR_EL0.IDC and/or CTR_EL0.IDC. Basically it skips the two instructions 'DC CVAU' and 'IC IVAU', and the associated loop logic in order to avoid the unnecessary overhead. CTR_EL0.DIC: Instruction cache invalidation requirements for instruction to data coherence. The meaning of this bit[29]. 0: Instruction cache invalidation to the point of unification is required for instruction to data coherence. 1: Instruction cache cleaning to the point of unification is not required for instruction to data coherence. CTR_EL0.IDC: Data cache clean requirements for instruction to data coherence. The meaning of this bit[28]. 0: Data cache clean to the point of unification is required for instruction to data coherence, unless CLIDR_EL1.LoC == 0b000 or (CLIDR_EL1.LoUIS == 0b000 && CLIDR_EL1.LoUU == 0b000). 1: Data cache clean to the point of unification is not required for instruction to data coherence. Co-authored-by: Philip Elcan <pelcan@codeaurora.org> Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> |
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Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.