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    Optimize Cortex-A57 cluster power down sequence on Juno · 5541bb3f
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    This patch optimizes the Cortex-A57 cluster power down sequence by not
    flushing the Level1 data cache. The L1 data cache and the L2 unified
    cache are inclusive. A flush of the L2 by set/way flushes any dirty
    lines from the L1 as well. This is a known safe deviation from the
    Cortex-A57 TRM defined power down sequence. This optimization can be
    enabled by the platform through the 'SKIP_A57_L1_FLUSH_PWR_DWN' build
    flag. Each Cortex-A57 based platform must make its own decision on
    whether to use the optimization.
    
    This patch also renames the cpu-errata-workarounds.md to
    cpu-specific-build-macros.md as this facilitates documentation
    of both CPU Specific errata and CPU Specific Optimization
    build macros.
    
    Change-Id: I299b9fe79e9a7e08e8a0dffb7d345f9a00a71480
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