From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King) Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:40:30 +0000 Subject: [RFC 00/11] Cache handling updates Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org For RFC, this series of patches cleans up and updates various aspects of the kernel's cache handling. The 'fix errata 411920' patch is one which I'm intending pushing to mainline once the current set has been pulled. A few things of note from this: 1. flush flush_dcache_page, on VIPT aliasing caches, we ended up flushing the I-cache multiple times. This has been fixed. 2. we now avoid flush_dcache_page operating on the ZERO_PAGE (for bss) 3. ZERO_PAGE can now be allocated from highmem 4. reinforced I-cache handling for VIVT ASID-tagged caches (to be more like VIVT caches were) 5. fix the RX->RW->RX issue by flushing the I-cache in flush_cache_range() 6. it seems pointless flushing the I-cache of VIPT caches in flush_cache_mm Russell King (11): ARM: Reduce __flush_dcache_page() visibility ARM: Fix errata 411920 workarounds ARM: move __flush_icache_all() out of flush_pfn_alias() ARM: Remove __flush_icache_all() from __flush_dcache_page() ARM: Avoid flush_dcache_page() for zero page ARM: Avoid duplicated implementation for VIVT cache flushing ARM: Allocate ZERO_PAGE from highmem ARM: Avoid evaluating page_address() multiple times ARM: Add I-cache invalidation for VIVT ASID tagged caches ARM: arrange for flush_cache_range() to always flush the I-cache ARM: avoid flushing I-cache in flush_cache_mm() arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 27 ++++++++++--- arch/arm/mm/context.c | 4 +- arch/arm/mm/fault-armv.c | 9 ++++ arch/arm/mm/flush.c | 74 ++++++++++++++++--------------------- arch/arm/mm/init.c | 9 ++++ arch/arm/mm/mm.h | 2 + arch/arm/mm/mmu.c | 10 ----- 7 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)