From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:53:49 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] ARM: mm: kill unused TLB_CAN_READ_FROM_L1_CACHE and
 use ALT_SMP instead
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 <1364235581-17900-4-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com>
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On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 06:19:40PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> 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>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

There are some pmd flushing functions we should target as well
(flush_pmd_entry, clean_pmd_entry) in this patch or a new one.

-- 
Catalin