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authorRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>2005-10-20 22:55:26 +0100
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>2005-10-29 19:32:50 +0100
commite5adb8770e12169a6595a3ad5682541441bd1052 (patch)
tree22aaae4e58f9d4054a474a5fa31d492e4b9e79a1
parent7cf8053b8ee48a7f0e9d8ebc72c279fb2e168c25 (diff)
Hack to resolve longstanding prefetch issue
Prefetching may be fatal on some systems if we're prefetching beyond the end of memory on some systems. It's also a seriously bad idea on non dma-coherent systems. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/mips/lib/memcpy.S15
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/mips/lib/memcpy.S b/arch/mips/lib/memcpy.S
index a78865f7654..7f9aafa4d80 100644
--- a/arch/mips/lib/memcpy.S
+++ b/arch/mips/lib/memcpy.S
@@ -13,6 +13,21 @@
* Mnemonic names for arguments to memcpy/__copy_user
*/
#include <linux/config.h>
+
+/*
+ * Hack to resolve longstanding prefetch issue
+ *
+ * Prefetching may be fatal on some systems if we're prefetching beyond the
+ * end of memory on some systems. It's also a seriously bad idea on non
+ * dma-coherent systems.
+ */
+#if !defined(CONFIG_DMA_COHERENT) || !defined(CONFIG_DMA_IP27)
+#undef CONFIG_CPU_HAS_PREFETCH
+#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_MIPS_MALTA
+#undef CONFIG_CPU_HAS_PREFETCH
+#endif
+
#include <asm/asm.h>
#include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
#include <asm/regdef.h>