From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757364Ab2HQKMb (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:12:31 -0400 Received: from na3sys009aog101.obsmtp.com ([74.125.149.67]:33588 "EHLO na3sys009aog101.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752662Ab2HQKM3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:12:29 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120817100729.GF24389@arm.com> References: <1344966752-16102-1-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com> <1344966752-16102-10-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com> <502E1580.70702@ti.com> <20120817100729.GF24389@arm.com> From: "Shilimkar, Santosh" Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:42:07 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/31] arm64: Cache maintenance routines To: Catalin Marinas Cc: "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Arnd Bergmann , Will Deacon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:57:20AM +0100, Santosh Shilimkar wrote: >> On Tuesday 14 August 2012 11:22 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote: >> > +ENTRY(__cpuc_flush_dcache_all) >> >> We have discussed the need of cache maintenance by >> level kind of API for ARMv7 (A15). >> >> Shouldn't we add such API for arm64 as well ? > > Yes, at some point we'll probably add but we'll discuss it again when > actually needed. I wouldn't define new API now that's not used by any > AArch64 code. > The patches are already on the list for ARMv7 and just waiting to merge two approaches. I agree once it is getting merged for ARMv7 and ARMv8 port can be updated. Regards Santosh