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| author | Diana CRACIUN <Diana.Craciun@freescale.com> | 2011-08-31 02:45:23 +0000 |
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| committer | Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> | 2011-09-05 16:07:44 +0200 |
| commit | 99ffccbd3e5b7bc715e2eed6ea6d36f4020b56d8 (patch) | |
| tree | e7a052f7678d7d86acbbfd0bf4d70385d99477ff /arch/powerpc/lib | |
| parent | 019fd6d45b611193610e3366392c53a817c3cee2 (diff) | |
Flush cache after the OS image is loaded into the memory.
Since we are loading an executable image into memory we need flush it
out of the cache to possible maintain coherence on CPUs with split
instruction and data caches. We do this for other executable image
loading command.
On PowerPC once we do this we no longer need to explicitly flush the
dcache on multi-core systems in the BOOTM_STATE_OS_PREP phase. We now
treat the BOOTM_STATE_OS_PREP as a no-op to maintain backwards
compatibility with the bootm subcommand.
Signed-off-by: James Yang <James.Yang@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Diana CRACIUN <Diana.Craciun@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/lib/bootm.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/bootm.c b/arch/powerpc/lib/bootm.c index 137547451b3..8233f1fd7b5 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/lib/bootm.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/bootm.c @@ -174,16 +174,6 @@ void arch_lmb_reserve(struct lmb *lmb) return ; } -static void boot_prep_linux(void) -{ -#ifdef CONFIG_MP - /* if we are MP make sure to flush the dcache() to any changes are made - * visibile to all other cores */ - flush_dcache(); -#endif - return ; -} - static int boot_cmdline_linux(bootm_headers_t *images) { ulong of_size = images->ft_len; @@ -339,17 +329,19 @@ int do_bootm_linux(int flag, int argc, char * const argv[], bootm_headers_t *ima return 0; } - if (flag & BOOTM_STATE_OS_PREP) { - boot_prep_linux(); + /* + * We do nothing & report success to retain compatiablity with older + * versions of u-boot in which this use to flush the dcache on MP + * systems + */ + if (flag & BOOTM_STATE_OS_PREP) return 0; - } if (flag & BOOTM_STATE_OS_GO) { boot_jump_linux(images); return 0; } - boot_prep_linux(); ret = boot_body_linux(images); if (ret) return ret; |