arm-trusted-firmware/docs
Sandrine Bailleux 54035fc467 Disable non-temporal hint on Cortex-A53/57
The LDNP/STNP instructions as implemented on Cortex-A53 and
Cortex-A57 do not behave in a way most programmers expect, and will
most probably result in a significant speed degradation to any code
that employs them. The ARMv8-A architecture (see Document ARM DDI
0487A.h, section D3.4.3) allows cores to ignore the non-temporal hint
and treat LDNP/STNP as LDP/STP instead.

This patch introduces 2 new build flags:
A53_DISABLE_NON_TEMPORAL_HINT and A57_DISABLE_NON_TEMPORAL_HINT
to enforce this behaviour on Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57. They are
enabled by default.

The string printed in debug builds when a specific CPU errata
workaround is compiled in but skipped at runtime has been
generalised, so that it can be reused for the non-temporal hint use
case as well.

Change-Id: I3e354f4797fd5d3959872a678e160322b13867a1
2016-02-08 09:31:18 +00:00
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diagrams Merge pull request #472 from danh-arm/dh/fwu-docs 2015-12-17 17:37:15 +00:00
plat docs: fix the command to compile BL31 on Tegra 2015-08-01 11:14:32 +05:30
spd Tegra: retrieve BL32's bootargs from bl32_ep_info 2015-07-31 10:26:22 +05:30
auth-framework.md Remove dashes from image names: 'BL3-x' --> 'BL3x' 2015-12-14 12:31:37 +00:00
change-log.md Update `change-log.md` for v1.2 release 2015-12-21 18:17:12 +00:00
cpu-specific-build-macros.md Disable non-temporal hint on Cortex-A53/57 2016-02-08 09:31:18 +00:00
firmware-design.md Doc: Update out-dated info about Juno's mailbox 2016-01-15 16:37:46 +00:00
firmware-update.md Documentation: Fix broken links in ToCs 2016-01-12 11:19:39 +00:00
interrupt-framework-design.md Documentation: Fix broken links in ToCs 2016-01-12 11:19:39 +00:00
platform-migration-guide.md Remove dashes from image names: 'BL3-x' --> 'BL3x' 2015-12-14 12:31:37 +00:00
porting-guide.md Merge pull request #504 from sandrine-bailleux/sb/fix-doc-mmap 2016-02-01 19:06:03 +00:00
psci-pd-tree.md PSCI: Introduce new platform interface to describe topology 2015-08-13 16:28:26 +01:00
reset-design.md Introduce the ARM TF reset design document 2015-12-15 15:14:43 +00:00
rt-svc-writers-guide.md Miscellaneous doc fixes for v1.2 2015-12-21 18:10:12 +00:00
trusted-board-boot.md FWU: Add documentation for Firmware Update feature 2015-12-17 16:39:37 +00:00
user-guide.md Clarify EL3 payload documentation 2016-01-29 15:31:52 +00:00