On 6/5/23 12:59, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
<libkern/OSCacheControl.h> describes sys_icache_invalidate() as
"equivalent to sys_cache_control(kCacheFunctionPrepareForExecution)",
having kCacheFunctionPrepareForExecution defined as:

   /* Prepare memory for execution.  This should be called
    * after writing machine instructions to memory, before
    * executing them.  It syncs the dcache and icache. [...]
    */

Since the dcache is also sync'd, we can avoid the sys_dcache_flush()
call when both rx/rw pointers are equal.

Suggested-by: Richard Henderson<richard.hender...@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé<phi...@linaro.org>
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Based-on:<20230605175647.88395-2-phi...@linaro.org>
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  util/cacheflush.c | 9 ++++++++-
  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.hender...@linaro.org>


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