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Will Deacon authored
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> Reviewed-by:
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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