From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 15:09:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] arm: mm: add memory type for inner-writeback In-Reply-To: <1388120328-17148-1-git-send-email-markz@nvidia.com> References: <1388120328-17148-1-git-send-email-markz@nvidia.com> Message-ID: <20140107150918.GA16947@localhost> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 04:58:48AM +0000, Mark Zhang wrote: > From: Colin Cross > > For streaming-style operations (e.g., software rendering of graphics > surfaces shared with non-coherent DMA devices), the cost of performing > L2 cache maintenance can exceed the benefit of having the larger cache > (this is particularly true for OUTER_CACHE configurations like the ARM > PL2x0). > > This change uses the currently-unused mapping 5 (TEX[0]=1, C=0, B=1) > in the tex remapping tables as an inner-writeback-write-allocate, outer > non-cacheable memory type, so that this mapping will be available to > clients which will benefit from the reduced L2 maintenance. > > Signed-off-by: Gary King Is Colin signing off this patch as well? > --- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-2level.S > +++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-2level.S > @@ -144,8 +144,8 @@ ENDPROC(cpu_v7_set_pte_ext) > * NS1 = PRRR[19] = 1 - normal shareable property > * NOS = PRRR[24+n] = 1 - not outer shareable > */ > -.equ PRRR, 0xff0a81a8 > -.equ NMRR, 0x40e040e0 > +.equ PRRR, 0xff0a89a8 > +.equ NMRR, 0x40e044e0 It should be done for the *-3level files. -- Catalin