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Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author	Files	Lines
2010-12-05	ARM: implement support for read-mostly sections	Russell King	1	-0/+2
	As our SMP implementation uses MESI protocols. Grouping together data which is mostly only read together means that we avoid unnecessary cache line bouncing when this code shares a cache line with other data. In other words, cache lines associated with read-mostly data are expected to spend most of their time in shared state. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-11	dma-mapping: rename ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN	FUJITA Tomonori	1	-1/+1
	Now each architecture has the own dma_get_cache_alignment implementation. dma_get_cache_alignment returns the minimum DMA alignment. Architectures define it as ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN (it's used to make sure that malloc'ed buffer is DMA-safe; the buffer doesn't share a cache with the others). So we can unify dma_get_cache_alignment implementations. This patch: dma_get_cache_alignment() needs to know if an architecture defines ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN or not (needs to know if architecture has DMA alignment restriction). However, slab.h define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN if architectures doesn't define it. Let's rename ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN. ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN is used only in the internals of slab/slob/slub (except for crypto). Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-15	ARM: 5700/1: ARM: Introduce ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT to define cache line size	Kirill A. Shutemov	1	-1/+1
	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>
2009-06-02	[ARM] 5534/1: kmalloc must return a cache line aligned buffer	Martin Fuzzey	1	-0/+16
	Define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN in asm/cache.h At the request of Russell also move ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN to this file. Signed-off-by: Martin Fuzzey <mfuzzey@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-08-02	[ARM] move include/asm-arm to arch/arm/include/asm	Russell King	1	-0/+10
	Move platform independent header files to arch/arm/include/asm, leaving those in asm/arch* and asm/plat* alone. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>