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* ARMv8: Allowing user space to perform cache-maintenance
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@ 2014-04-30 10:58   ` catalin.marinas at arm.com
  2014-04-30 15:34     ` Rajan Srivastava
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From: catalin.marinas at arm.com @ 2014-04-30 10:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-arm-kernel

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 02:01:38PM +0530, Rajan Srivastava wrote:
> ARMv8 allows AArch64-EL0 to execute cache maintenance instructions
> (eg, by setting SCTLR_EL1.UCI). It looks like the current ARMv8 kernel
> doesn't support the above feature.

Where have you looked and came up to this conclusion?

-- 
Catalin

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* ARMv8: Allowing user space to perform cache-maintenance
  2014-04-30 10:58   ` ARMv8: Allowing user space to perform cache-maintenance catalin.marinas at arm.com
@ 2014-04-30 15:34     ` Rajan Srivastava
  2014-04-30 15:38       ` Catalin Marinas
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Rajan Srivastava @ 2014-04-30 15:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-arm-kernel

I am referring to ARM for ARMv8-A, "ARM DDI 0487A.a_errata_2013_Q3 (ID100313)", section D8.2.79 'System Control Register (EL1)'.

Thanks,
Rajan


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> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 11:58:20 +0100
> From: catalin.marinas at arm.com
> To: rajan_srivastava at hotmail.com
> CC: linaro-kernel at lists.linaro.org; linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: ARMv8: Allowing user space to perform cache-maintenance
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 02:01:38PM +0530, Rajan Srivastava wrote:
>> ARMv8 allows AArch64-EL0 to execute cache maintenance instructions
>> (eg, by setting SCTLR_EL1.UCI). It looks like the current ARMv8 kernel
>> doesn't support the above feature.
>
> Where have you looked and came up to this conclusion?
>
> --
> Catalin
 		 	   		  

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* ARMv8: Allowing user space to perform cache-maintenance
  2014-04-30 15:34     ` Rajan Srivastava
@ 2014-04-30 15:38       ` Catalin Marinas
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Catalin Marinas @ 2014-04-30 15:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-arm-kernel

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 04:34:29PM +0100, Rajan Srivastava wrote:
> I am referring to ARM for ARMv8-A, "ARM DDI 0487A.a_errata_2013_Q3
> (ID100313)", section D8.2.79 'System Control Register (EL1)'.

I meant which kernel version have you looked at?

-- 
Catalin

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