linux/arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h
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

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/*
* arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h
*/
#ifndef __ASMARM_CACHE_H
#define __ASMARM_CACHE_H
#define L1_CACHE_SHIFT CONFIG_ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT
#define L1_CACHE_BYTES (1 << L1_CACHE_SHIFT)
/*
* Memory returned by kmalloc() may be used for DMA, so we must make
* sure that all such allocations are cache aligned. Otherwise,
* unrelated code may cause parts of the buffer to be read into the
* cache before the transfer is done, causing old data to be seen by
* the CPU.
*/
#define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN L1_CACHE_BYTES
/*
* With EABI on ARMv5 and above we must have 64-bit aligned slab pointers.
*/
#if defined(CONFIG_AEABI) && (__LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 5)
#define ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN 8
#endif
#endif