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    ARM platforms: rationalise memory attributes of shared memory · 74eb26e4
    Juan Castillo authored
    The shared memory region on ARM platforms contains the mailboxes and,
    on Juno, the payload area for communication with the SCP. This shared
    memory may be configured as normal memory or device memory at build
    time by setting the platform flag 'PLAT_ARM_SHARED_RAM_CACHED' (on
    Juno, the value of this flag is defined by 'MHU_PAYLOAD_CACHED').
    When set as normal memory, the platform port performs the corresponding
    cache maintenance operations. From a functional point of view, this is
    the equivalent of setting the shared memory as device memory, so there
    is no need to maintain both options.
    
    This patch removes the option to specify the shared memory as normal
    memory on ARM platforms. Shared memory is always treated as device
    memory. Cache maintenance operations are no longer needed and have
    been replaced by data memory barriers to guarantee that payload and
    MHU are accessed in the right order.
    
    Change-Id: I7f958621d6a536dd4f0fa8768385eedc4295e79f
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