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In systems that include a MIPS Coherency Manager, the icache always fills from a cache which is coherent across all CPUs. In I6400 & I6500 systems the icache fills from the dcache which is coherent across all CPUs. In all other CM-based systems the icache fills from the L2 cache which is shared between all cores. This means that an icache will always see stores from remote CPUs without needing to write them back any further than that L2, which is what the cpu_icache_snoops_remote_store feature is used to test. In order for it to return 1 without needing a per-platform override (which is what Malta has relied upon so far) set the MIPS_IC_SNOOPS_REMOTE flag when a CM is present. Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/16200/
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
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.