tile: do less L1 I-cache eviction

We had been doing an automatic full eviction of the L1 I$
everywhere whenever we did a kernel-space TLB flush.  It turns
out this isn't necessary, since all the callers already handle
doing a flush if necessary.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
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Chris Metcalf 2013-08-09 16:09:41 -04:00
parent 6f0142d501
commit abe3265a6d
1 changed files with 7 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -91,8 +91,14 @@ void flush_tlb_all(void)
}
}
/*
* Callers need to flush the L1I themselves if necessary, e.g. for
* kernel module unload. Otherwise we assume callers are not using
* executable pgprot_t's. Using EVICT_L1I means that dataplane cpus
* will get an unnecessary interrupt otherwise.
*/
void flush_tlb_kernel_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{
flush_remote(0, HV_FLUSH_EVICT_L1I, cpu_online_mask,
flush_remote(0, 0, NULL,
start, end - start, PAGE_SIZE, cpu_online_mask, NULL, 0);
}