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Commit bff70595 authored by Mark Rutland's avatar Mark Rutland Committed by Catalin Marinas
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arm64: remove unnecessary cache flush at boot



Currently we flush the entire dcache at boot within __cpu_setup, but
this is unnecessary as the booting protocol demands that the dcache is
invalid and off upon entering the kernel. The presence of the cache
flush only serves to hide bugs in bootloaders, and is not safe in the
presence of SMP.

In an SMP boot scenario the CPUs enter coherency outside of the kernel,
and the primary CPU enables its caches before bringing up secondary
CPUs. Therefore if any secondary CPU has an entry in its cache (in
violation of the boot protocol), the primary CPU might snoop it even if
the secondary CPU's cache is disabled. The boot-time cache flush only
serves to hide a firmware bug, and slows down a cpu boot unnecessarily.

This patch removes the unnecessary boot-time cache flush.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: make __flush_dcache_all local only]
Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
parent addea9ef
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