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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/booting.txt | 10 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt b/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt index a9691cc48fe3..beb754e87c65 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt @@ -111,8 +111,14 @@ Before jumping into the kernel, the following conditions must be met: - Caches, MMUs The MMU must be off. Instruction cache may be on or off. - Data cache must be off and invalidated. - External caches (if present) must be configured and disabled. + The address range corresponding to the loaded kernel image must be + cleaned to the PoC. In the presence of a system cache or other + coherent masters with caches enabled, this will typically require + cache maintenance by VA rather than set/way operations. + System caches which respect the architected cache maintenance by VA + operations must be configured and may be enabled. + System caches which do not respect architected cache maintenance by VA + operations (not recommended) must be configured and disabled. - Architected timers CNTFRQ must be programmed with the timer frequency and CNTVOFF must |