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CP0 config register may indicate whether write-through merging is allowed. Currently there are two types of the merging available: SysAD Valid and Full modes. Whether each of them are supported by the core is implementation dependent. Moreover whether the ability to change the mode also depends on the chip family instance. Taking into account all of this we created a dedicated mm_config() method to detect and enable merging if it's supported. It is called for MIPS-type processors at CPU-probe stage and attempts to detect whether the write merging is available. If it's known to be supported and switchable, then switch on the full mode. Otherwise just perform the CP0.Config.MM field analysis. In addition there are platforms like InterAptiv/ProAptiv, which do have the MM bit field set by default, but having write-through cacheing unsupported makes write-merging also unsupported. In this case we just ignore the MM field value. Co-developed-by: Alexey Malahov <Alexey.Malahov@baikalelectronics.ru> Signed-off-by: Alexey Malahov <Alexey.Malahov@baikalelectronics.ru> Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.