Jon Eibertzon writes:
> We have noticed that the I-cache is disabled while waiting for
> interrupt in cpu_arm926_do_idle in arch/arm/mm/proc-arm926.S
> and we are curious to know why, because this causes us a great
> performance hit when executing in FIQ-handlers. Is it assumed
> here that every individual FIQ-handler re-enables the I-cache?
The I-cache disable is an errata workaround, so the solution is to
disable FIQs across the section with the I-cache disabled.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
