MIPS: Add option to disable software I/O coherency.

Some MIPS controllers have hardware I/O coherency. This patch
detects those and turns off software coherency. A new kernel
command line option also allows the user to manually turn
software coherency on or off.

Signed-off-by: Steven J. Hill <Steven.Hill@imgtec.com>
This commit is contained in:
Steven J. Hill
2013-03-25 13:47:29 -05:00
parent c34c09c81d
commit b6d92b4a6b
7 changed files with 112 additions and 24 deletions

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@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
#include <asm/war.h>
#include <asm/cacheflush.h> /* for run_uncached() */
#include <asm/traps.h>
#include <asm/dma-coherence.h>
/*
* Special Variant of smp_call_function for use by cache functions:
@@ -1377,20 +1378,6 @@ static void __cpuinit coherency_setup(void)
}
}
#if defined(CONFIG_DMA_NONCOHERENT)
static int __cpuinitdata coherentio;
static int __init setcoherentio(char *str)
{
coherentio = 1;
return 0;
}
early_param("coherentio", setcoherentio);
#endif
static void __cpuinit r4k_cache_error_setup(void)
{
extern char __weak except_vec2_generic;
@@ -1472,9 +1459,14 @@ void __cpuinit r4k_cache_init(void)
build_clear_page();
build_copy_page();
#if !defined(CONFIG_MIPS_CMP)
/*
* We want to run CMP kernels on core with and without coherent
* caches. Therefore, do not use CONFIG_MIPS_CMP to decide whether
* or not to flush caches.
*/
local_r4k___flush_cache_all(NULL);
#endif
coherency_setup();
board_cache_error_setup = r4k_cache_error_setup;
}