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* [PATCH v2 0/7] ARM: Broadcom Brahma-B15 readahead cache support
@ 2017-06-23 17:52 Florian Fainelli
  2017-06-23 17:52 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] ARM: v7: allow setting different cache functions Florian Fainelli
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From: Florian Fainelli @ 2017-06-23 17:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-arm-kernel
  Cc: Florian Fainelli, Russell King, Brian Norris, Gregory Fong,
	maintainer:BROADCOM BCM7XXX ARM ARCHITECTURE, Greg Kroah-Hartman,
	David S. Miller, Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Martin K. Petersen,
	Vladimir Murzin, Jonathan Austin, Kees Cook, Laura Abbott,
	Masahiro Yamada, Mark Rutland, Pawel Moll, Andrew Morton,
	Douglas Anderson, Marc Zyngier, Catalin Marinas,
	Christoffer Dall, Doug Anderson, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior,
	Thomas Gleixner, Anna-Maria Gleixner, Ingo Molnar,
	Richard Cochran, open list, opendmb

Hi all,

This patch series adds support for the Broadcom Brahma-B15 readahead cache.
I submitted that patch series a couple of years ago, and then slept on it so
here is another stab at it.

Note that we did not implement this cache as a version of an outer cache
for several reasons:

- we initially thought we needed to intercept flush_icache_all and
  flush_kern_cache_louis but upon further inspection we convinced ourselves
  this is no longer needed, still, flush_cache_all() needs special handling
  here and needs to be wrapped around

- the outer cache does not allow differentiating a DMA transfer direction
  this is a readahead cache, so it does not participate in writes, flushing
  it during reads *and* writes kills the performance completely

- finally, most operations that outer_cache cares about are on MVA, which
  is transparent to the readahead cache here

Changes in v2:

- clarify that the read-ahead caches does invalidates on writes (IOW) based
  on Russell's feedback

Florian Fainelli (7):
  ARM: v7: allow setting different cache functions
  ARM: Add Broadcom Brahma-B15 readahead cache support
  ARM: Hook B15 readahead cache functions based on processor
  ARM: B15: Add CPU hotplug awareness
  ARM: B15: Add suspend/resume hooks
  ARM: B15: Register reboot notifier for KEXEC
  MAINTAINERS: Update brcmstb entries to cover B15 code

 MAINTAINERS                                   |   2 +
 arch/arm/include/asm/glue-cache.h             |   4 +
 arch/arm/include/asm/hardware/cache-b15-rac.h |  10 +
 arch/arm/mm/Kconfig                           |   8 +
 arch/arm/mm/Makefile                          |   1 +
 arch/arm/mm/cache-b15-rac.c                   | 360 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S                        |  21 ++
 arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S                         |   6 +-
 include/linux/cpuhotplug.h                    |   2 +
 9 files changed, 411 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/arm/include/asm/hardware/cache-b15-rac.h
 create mode 100644 arch/arm/mm/cache-b15-rac.c

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2.9.3

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2017-06-23 17:52 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] ARM: B15: Add suspend/resume hooks Florian Fainelli
2017-06-23 17:52 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] ARM: B15: Register reboot notifier for KEXEC Florian Fainelli
2017-06-23 17:52 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] MAINTAINERS: Update brcmstb entries to cover B15 code Florian Fainelli
2017-07-14 22:11 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] ARM: Broadcom Brahma-B15 readahead cache support Florian Fainelli
2017-08-14 16:23   ` Florian Fainelli
2017-12-01  0:17     ` Florian Fainelli

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