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    ARM: mm: implement LoUIS API for cache maintenance ops · 031bd879
    Lorenzo Pieralisi authored
    ARM v7 architecture introduced the concept of cache levels and related
    control registers. New processors like A7 and A15 embed an L2 unified cache
    controller that becomes part of the cache level hierarchy. Some operations in
    the kernel like cpu_suspend and __cpu_disable do not require a flush of the
    entire cache hierarchy to DRAM but just the cache levels belonging to the
    Level of Unification Inner Shareable (LoUIS), which in most of ARM v7 systems
    correspond to L1.
    
    The current cache flushing API used in cpu_suspend and __cpu_disable,
    flush_cache_all(), ends up flushing the whole cache hierarchy since for
    v7 it cleans and invalidates all cache levels up to Level of Coherency
    (LoC) which cripples system performance when used in hot paths like hotplug
    and cpuidle.
    
    Therefore a new kernel cache maintenance API must be added to cope with
    latest ARM system requirements.
    
    This patch adds flush_cache_louis() to the ARM kernel cache maintenance API.
    
    This function cleans and invalidates all data cache levels up to the
    Level of Unification Inner Shareable (LoUIS) and invalidates the instruction
    cache for processors that support it (> v7).
    
    This patch also creates an alias of the cache LoUIS function to flush_kern_all
    for all processor versions prior to v7, so that the current cache flushing
    behaviour is unchanged for those processors.
    
    v7 cache maintenance code implements a cache LoUIS function that cleans and
    invalidates the D-cache up to LoUIS and invalidates the I-cache, according
    to the new API.
    Reviewed-by: default avatarSantosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarNicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarShawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
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