sh: Improve comments int SH4 cache flushing code

This is a pure documentation, to try to explain why the cache flushing code
for the SH4 is implemented the way it is.

Signed-off-by: Stuart Menefy <stuart.menefy@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/sh/mm/cache-sh4.c b/arch/sh/mm/cache-sh4.c
index 5cfe08dbb59..7ce81618831 100644
--- a/arch/sh/mm/cache-sh4.c
+++ b/arch/sh/mm/cache-sh4.c
@@ -581,6 +581,17 @@ static void __flush_cache_4096(unsigned long addr, unsigned long phys,
  * Break the 1, 2 and 4 way variants of this out into separate functions to
  * avoid nearly all the overhead of having the conditional stuff in the function
  * bodies (+ the 1 and 2 way cases avoid saving any registers too).
+ *
+ * We want to eliminate unnecessary bus transactions, so this code uses
+ * a non-obvious technique.
+ *
+ * Loop over a cache way sized block of, one cache line at a time. For each
+ * line, use movca.a to cause the current cache line contents to be written
+ * back, but without reading anything from main memory. However this has the
+ * side effect that the cache is now caching that memory location. So follow
+ * this with a cache invalidate to mark the cache line invalid. And do all
+ * this with interrupts disabled, to avoid the cache line being accidently
+ * evicted while it is holding garbage.
  */
 static void __flush_dcache_segment_1way(unsigned long start,
                                         unsigned long extent_per_way)