linux/Documentation/arm64
Robin Murphy f0cfffc48c iommu/arm-smmu: Work around MMU-500 prefetch errata
MMU-500 erratum #841119 is tickled by a particular set of circumstances
interacting with the next-page prefetcher. Since said prefetcher is
quite dumb and actually detrimental to performance in some cases (by
causing unwanted TLB evictions for non-sequential access patterns), we
lose very little by turning it off, and what we gain is a guarantee that
the erratum is never hit.

As a bonus, the same workaround will also prevent erratum #826419 once
v7 short descriptor support is implemented.

CC: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
CC: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2016-05-03 18:23:02 +01:00
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acpi_object_usage.txt ARM64 / ACPI: additions of ACPI documentation for arm64 2015-03-26 15:13:09 +00:00
arm-acpi.txt Documentation: ACPI for ARM64 2015-03-26 15:13:09 +00:00
booting.txt arm64: allow kernel Image to be loaded anywhere in physical memory 2016-02-18 18:16:53 +00:00
legacy_instructions.txt arm64: Emulate SETEND for AArch32 tasks 2015-01-23 17:11:44 +00:00
memory.txt Documentation/arm64/memory.txt: fix typo 2014-10-20 17:55:38 +01:00
silicon-errata.txt iommu/arm-smmu: Work around MMU-500 prefetch errata 2016-05-03 18:23:02 +01:00
tagged-pointers.txt arm64: documentation: tighten up tagged pointer documentation 2013-09-20 09:56:06 +01:00