Re: [PATCH V4 5/5] arm: mvebu: Added SMP support for Armada XP

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 04:49:29PM +0000, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:

On 11/20/2012 05:40 PM, Will Deacon wrote:

quoted

ENTRY(armada_xp_secondary_startup)
	ldr     r0, =ARMADA_XP_CFB_BASE
	mrc     p15, 0, r1, c0, c0, 5
	and     r1, r1, #0xF
	adr	lr, BSYM(secondary_startup)

	/* Fallthrough */

ENTRY(ll_set_cpu_coherent)
...
ENDPROC(ll_set_cpu_coherent)
ENDPROC(armada_xp_secondary_startup)

what do you think?

I prefer to keep them separate, as we can use coherency without SMP.
That's why I create the coherency_ll.S file instead of putting everything
in this file.

Hmm, can you elaborate a bit more on coherency without SMP please? Do these
controls also affect IO coherency?

Will