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authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2013-04-03 17:16:57 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2013-04-03 17:39:07 +0100
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ARM: 7691/1: mm: kill unused TLB_CAN_READ_FROM_L1_CACHE and use ALT_SMP instead
Many ARMv7 cores have hardware page table walkers that can read the L1 cache. This is discoverable from the ID_MMFR3 register, although this can be expensive to access from the low-level set_pte functions and is a pain to cache, particularly with multi-cluster systems. A useful observation is that the multi-processing extensions for ARMv7 require coherent table walks, meaning that we can make use of ALT_SMP patching in proc-v7-* to patch away the cache flush safely for these cores. Reported-by: Albin Tonnerre <Albin.Tonnerre@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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