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Russell King
daf8741675 ARM: implement support for read-mostly sections
As our SMP implementation uses MESI protocols.  Grouping together data
which is mostly only read together means that we avoid unnecessary
cache line bouncing when this code shares a cache line with other data.

In other words, cache lines associated with read-mostly data are
expected to spend most of their time in shared state.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-12-05 08:39:36 +00:00
FUJITA Tomonori
a6eb9fe105 dma-mapping: rename ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN
Now each architecture has the own dma_get_cache_alignment implementation.

dma_get_cache_alignment returns the minimum DMA alignment.  Architectures
define it as ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN (it's used to make sure that malloc'ed
buffer is DMA-safe; the buffer doesn't share a cache with the others).  So
we can unify dma_get_cache_alignment implementations.

This patch:

dma_get_cache_alignment() needs to know if an architecture defines
ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN or not (needs to know if architecture has DMA
alignment restriction).  However, slab.h define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN if
architectures doesn't define it.

Let's rename ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN.
ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN is used only in the internals of slab/slob/slub
(except for crypto).

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-11 08:59:21 -07:00
Kirill A. Shutemov
910a17e57a ARM: 5700/1: ARM: Introduce ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT to define cache line size
Currently kernel believes that all ARM CPUs have L1_CACHE_SHIFT == 5.
It's not true at least for CPUs based on Cortex-A8.

List of CPUs with cache line size != 32 should be expanded later.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-09-15 22:06:38 +01:00
Martin Fuzzey
eb5f4ca953 [ARM] 5534/1: kmalloc must return a cache line aligned buffer
Define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN in asm/cache.h
At the request of Russell also move ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN to this file.

Signed-off-by: Martin Fuzzey <mfuzzey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-02 22:36:15 +01:00
Russell King
4baa992243 [ARM] move include/asm-arm to arch/arm/include/asm
Move platform independent header files to arch/arm/include/asm, leaving
those in asm/arch* and asm/plat* alone.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-08-02 21:32:35 +01:00
Renamed from include/asm-arm/cache.h (Browse further)