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>
This commit is contained in:
Will Deacon
2013-04-03 17:16:57 +01:00
committed by Russell King
parent b008848020
commit ae8a8b9553
5 changed files with 7 additions and 7 deletions

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@@ -80,12 +80,10 @@ ENTRY(cpu_v6_do_idle)
mov pc, lr
ENTRY(cpu_v6_dcache_clean_area)
#ifndef TLB_CAN_READ_FROM_L1_CACHE
1: mcr p15, 0, r0, c7, c10, 1 @ clean D entry
add r0, r0, #D_CACHE_LINE_SIZE
subs r1, r1, #D_CACHE_LINE_SIZE
bhi 1b
#endif
mov pc, lr
/*