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ArmPkg: remove cache maintenance by VA operation range size threshold
authorArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Tue, 14 Apr 2015 11:54:40 +0000 (11:54 +0000)
committeroliviermartin <oliviermartin@Edk2>
Tue, 14 Apr 2015 11:54:40 +0000 (11:54 +0000)
commit6ea34e3a459733d3c27617dfb1cee2d841193ca2
treea4d0d9c6ccdfc9bfa0365a198614668c2920dd5d
parentd94a48c71a67b646903670bfd2426501e4634bd6
ArmPkg: remove cache maintenance by VA operation range size threshold

This removes the range size threshold for virtual address based cache
maintenance instructions that operate on VA ranges to be 'promoted' to
use set/way instructions.

Doing so is unsafe: set/way operations are fundamentally different
from VA operations, and really only suitable for cleaning or invalidating
a cache when turning it on or off.

To quote the ARM ARM (DDI0487A_d G3.4):
"""
Since the set/way instructions are performed only locally, there is no
guarantee of the atomicity of cache maintenance between different PEs,
even if those different PEs are each performing the same cache maintenance
instructions at the same time. Since any cacheable line can be allocated
into the cache at any time, it is possible for [a] cache line to migrate
from an entry in the cache of one PE to the cache of a different PE in a
manner that the cache line avoids being affected by set/way based cache
maintenance. Therefore, ARM strongly discourages the use of set/way
instructions to manage coherency in coherent systems.
"""

Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
Reviewed-by: Olivier Martin <Olivier.Martin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/trunk/edk2@17176 6f19259b-4bc3-4df7-8a09-765794883524
15 files changed:
ArmPkg/ArmPkg.dec
ArmPkg/Library/ArmCacheMaintenanceLib/ArmCacheMaintenanceLib.c
ArmPkg/Library/ArmCacheMaintenanceLib/ArmCacheMaintenanceLib.inf
ArmPkg/Library/ArmLib/AArch64/AArch64Lib.inf
ArmPkg/Library/ArmLib/AArch64/AArch64LibPrePi.inf
ArmPkg/Library/ArmLib/AArch64/AArch64LibSec.inf
ArmPkg/Library/ArmLib/Arm11/Arm11Lib.inf
ArmPkg/Library/ArmLib/Arm11/Arm11LibPrePi.inf
ArmPkg/Library/ArmLib/Arm11/Arm11LibSec.inf
ArmPkg/Library/ArmLib/Arm9/Arm9ArmLib.inf
ArmPkg/Library/ArmLib/Arm9/Arm9ArmLibPrePi.inf
ArmPkg/Library/ArmLib/ArmV7/ArmV7Lib.inf
ArmPkg/Library/ArmLib/ArmV7/ArmV7LibPrePi.inf
ArmPkg/Library/ArmLib/ArmV7/ArmV7LibSec.inf
ArmPkg/Library/ArmLib/Null/NullArmLib.inf