[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/6] riscv: remove invalid dcache flush implementation
Bin Meng
bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Mon Dec 31 06:05:45 UTC 2018
On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 2:28 AM Lukas Auer
<lukas.auer at aisec.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
>
> The fence instruction is used to enforce device I/O and memory ordering
> constraints in RISC-V. It does not directly affect the data cache and
> particular cannot be used to flush or invalidate it. RISC-V does not
> have instructions for explicit cache control. Remove the
> flush_dcache_all implementation and its use in all dcache-specific
> functions in lib/cache.c.
>
> This also adds a missing new line between flush_dcache_all and
> flush_dcache_range in lib/cache.c.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Auer <lukas.auer at aisec.fraunhofer.de>
> ---
> This patch only removes the implementation itself and its use in
> dcache-specific functions in lib/cache.c. There are more uses of it in
> arch/riscv/, which this patch does not remove.
>
> arch/riscv/lib/cache.c | 4 +---
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
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