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| author | Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com> | 2016-02-09 17:01:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com> | 2016-02-18 15:38:18 +0000 |
| commit | d1b2b203a7b98ed69a035e4a096f7ea413009e04 (patch) | |
| tree | 8049a6cd1fa5afd109a9279e92ec063b529fb27d /docs/cpu-specific-build-macros.md | |
| parent | 49b6d3491cd68be1112aa9c3b804e56070e7b8d6 (diff) | |
Cortex-A57: Add link to software optimization guide
This patch adds a link to the Cortex-A57 Software Optimization Guide
in the ARM CPU Specific Build Macros document to justify the default
value of the A57_DISABLE_NON_TEMPORAL_HINT build flag.
Change-Id: I9779e42a4bb118442b2b64717ce143314ec9dd16
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/cpu-specific-build-macros.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/cpu-specific-build-macros.md | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/cpu-specific-build-macros.md b/docs/cpu-specific-build-macros.md index e7185aa4..c57dc7ee 100644 --- a/docs/cpu-specific-build-macros.md +++ b/docs/cpu-specific-build-macros.md @@ -85,8 +85,12 @@ architecture that can be enabled by the platform as desired. * `A57_DISABLE_NON_TEMPORAL_HINT`: This flag has the same behaviour as `A53_DISABLE_NON_TEMPORAL_HINT` but for Cortex-A57. This needs to be - enabled only for revisions <= r1p2 of the CPU and is enabled by default. + enabled only for revisions <= r1p2 of the CPU and is enabled by default, + as recommended in section "4.7 Non-Temporal Loads/Stores" of the + [Cortex-A57 Software Optimization Guide][A57 SW Optimization Guide]. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - _Copyright (c) 2014-2016, ARM Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved._ + +[A57 SW Optimization Guide]: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.uan0015b/Cortex_A57_Software_Optimization_Guide_external.pdf |