From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7] arm64: Add support for new control bits CTR_EL0.DIC
 and CTR_EL0.IDC
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 13:48:13 +0000
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On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 09:00:08AM -0600, Shanker Donthineni wrote:
> 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.

Cheers, I've queued this for 4.17.

Will