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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2014-05-07 15:15:46 +0400 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2014-05-07 15:15:46 +0400 |
| commit | 2fe5de9ce7d57498abc14b375cad2fcf8c3ee6cc (patch) | |
| tree | 9478e8cf470c1d5bdb2d89b57a7e35919ab95e72 /Documentation/arm64/booting.txt | |
| parent | 08f8aeb55d7727d644dbbbbfb798fe937d47751d (diff) | |
| parent | 2b4cfe64dee0d84506b951d81bf55d9891744d25 (diff) | |
| download | linux-2fe5de9ce7d57498abc14b375cad2fcf8c3ee6cc.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core, to avoid conflicts
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
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 |