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From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: mm: Add workaround for erratum 763126
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 15:44:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140509144439.GG7950@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFY15YHPSLMh6iA1PQHjsneL_Kxarc0xL5uJ7_px71cbmJbrgQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 02:56:02PM +0100, arjun kv wrote:
> As Doug already mentioned, we have not observed an issue which could have been
> triggered by this erratum.
> Nor do we have a method to actually trigger the livelock.
> But if it improves the performance and has no real side effects, we could?at
> least?land this in our local tree?

It's up to you, but do some benchmarks first.

ACTLR bits that improve performance on specific SoCs should really be
set by the firmware before booting the kernel. There is no way for the
kernel to know what works best for your system, especially when we deal
with implementation-defined registers.

-- 
Catalin

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-09 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-08  5:55 [PATCH] ARM: mm: Add workaround for erratum 763126 Arjun.K.V
2014-05-08 16:57 ` Doug Anderson
2014-05-08 17:38   ` Will Deacon
2014-05-08 17:57     ` Doug Anderson
2014-05-08 18:05       ` Will Deacon
     [not found]         ` <CAFY15YHPSLMh6iA1PQHjsneL_Kxarc0xL5uJ7_px71cbmJbrgQ@mail.gmail.com>
2014-05-09 14:44           ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2014-05-12 16:36           ` Doug Anderson

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