1. 12 Mar, 2009 2 commits
    • Paul Walmsley's avatar
      [ARM] 5422/1: ARM: MMU: add a Non-cacheable Normal executable memory type · e4707dd3
      Paul Walmsley authored
      This patch adds a Non-cacheable Normal ARM executable memory type,
      MT_MEMORY_NONCACHED.
      
      On OMAP3, this is used for rapid dynamic voltage/frequency scaling in
      the VDD2 voltage domain. OMAP3's SDRAM controller (SDRC) is in the
      VDD2 voltage domain, and its clock frequency must change along with
      voltage. The SDRC clock change code cannot run from SDRAM itself,
      since SDRAM accesses are paused during the clock change. So the
      current implementation of the DVFS code executes from OMAP on-chip
      SRAM, aka "OCM RAM."
      
      If the OCM RAM pages are marked as Cacheable, the ARM cache controller
      will attempt to flush dirty cache lines to the SDRC, so it can fill
      those lines with OCM RAM instruction code. The problem is that the
      SDRC is paused during DVFS, and so any SDRAM access causes the ARM MPU
      subsystem to hang.
      
      TI's original solution to this problem was to mark the OCM RAM
      sections as Strongly Ordered memory, thus preventing caching. This is
      overkill: since the memory is marked as non-bufferable, OCM RAM writes
      become needlessly slow. The idea of "Strongly Ordered SRAM" is also
      conceptually disturbing. Previous LAKML list discussion is here:
      
      http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg54312.html
      
      This memory type MT_MEMORY_NONCACHED is used for OCM RAM by a future
      patch.
      
      Cc: Richard Woodruff <r-woodruff2@ti.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
      e4707dd3
    • Linus Walleij's avatar
      [ARM] 5420/1: MMCI devinit and devexit macros · 6dc4a47a
      Linus Walleij authored
      This adds __devinit and __devexit macros to the module probe and
      remove functions in MMCI. Now includes the __devexit_p() thing too.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@ericsson.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
      6dc4a47a
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