[U-Boot] bootcount: Add dcache flush to bootcount_store()

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:11:17AM -0700, York Sun wrote:
> 
> 
> On 03/16/2015 10:05 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> >>>> 8xx and 83xx just need the dummy files copied over.
> >>>
> >>> OK, I went and poked at going one direction on this and then dug into
> >>> the higher level problem more.  PowerPC _needs_ the current kernel's
> >>> arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S relevant cache functions ported over for
> >>> everyone and we should kill the dummy functions we have today.  To try
> >>> and encourage some folks to do this I'm going to drop this bootcount
> >>> patch for now.
> >>>
> >>
> >> FWIW, powerpc mpc83xx, mpc85xx, mpc86xx all have flush_dcache_range() function
> >> defined.
> > 
> > Yes and no:
> > $ git grep -l flush_dcache_range arch/powerpc/
> > arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc512x/cache.c
> > arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc5xxx/cache.c
> > arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc83xx/cache.c
> > arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/cache.c
> > arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc86xx/cache.S
> > arch/powerpc/cpu/ppc4xx/cache.S
> > 
> > Of these only ppc4xx and mpc86xx are real functions, borrowed from the
> > kernel long long ago.  The rest are dummy functions.  And we should
> > instead make everyone have the same real functions the kernel does :)
> 
> Ah! I was under the impression we use it. But we actually used flush_cache()
> function.

Yeah, there's some related cleanup that should be done too :)

-- 
Tom
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