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-rw-r--r--arch/arm/mach-vexpress/dcscb.c13
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-vexpress/dcscb.c b/arch/arm/mach-vexpress/dcscb.c
index 14d499688736..788495d35cf9 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-vexpress/dcscb.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-vexpress/dcscb.c
@@ -137,11 +137,16 @@ static void dcscb_power_down(void)
v7_exit_coherency_flush(all);
/*
- * This is a harmless no-op. On platforms with a real
- * outer cache this might either be needed or not,
- * depending on where the outer cache sits.
+ * A full outer cache flush could be needed at this point
+ * on platforms with such a cache, depending on where the
+ * outer cache sits. In some cases the notion of a "last
+ * cluster standing" would need to be implemented if the
+ * outer cache is shared across clusters. In any case, when
+ * the outer cache needs flushing, there is no concurrent
+ * access to the cache controller to worry about and no
+ * special locking besides what is already provided by the
+ * MCPM state machinery is needed.
*/
- outer_flush_all();
/*
* Disable cluster-level coherency by masking