ARM: 6381/1: Use lazy cache flushing on ARMv7 SMP systems
ARMv7 processors like Cortex-A9 broadcast the cache maintenance operations in hardware. This patch allows the flush_dcache_page/update_mmu_cache pair to work in lazy flushing mode similar to the UP case. Note that cache flushing on SMP systems now takes place via the set_pte_at() call (__sync_icache_dcache) and there is no race with other CPUs executing code from the new PTE before the cache flushing took place. Tested-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@stericsson.com> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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