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+/*
+ * arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h
+ */
+#ifndef __ASMARM_CACHE_H
+#define __ASMARM_CACHE_H
+
+#define L1_CACHE_SHIFT CONFIG_ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT
+#define L1_CACHE_BYTES (1 << L1_CACHE_SHIFT)
+
+/*
+ * Memory returned by kmalloc() may be used for DMA, so we must make
+ * sure that all such allocations are cache aligned. Otherwise,
+ * unrelated code may cause parts of the buffer to be read into the
+ * cache before the transfer is done, causing old data to be seen by
+ * the CPU.
+ */
+#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN L1_CACHE_BYTES
+
+/*
+ * With EABI on ARMv5 and above we must have 64-bit aligned slab pointers.
+ */
+#if defined(CONFIG_AEABI) && (__LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 5)
+#define ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN 8
+#endif
+
+#define __read_mostly __attribute__((__section__(".data..read_mostly")))
+
+#endif