[PATCH] amdgcn: remove unnecessary scalar cache flush

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Oct 20 12:54, Andrew Stubbs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This patch is necessary to support AMD RDNA2 GPUs that don't have a writable
> scalar cache.  However, the write back isn't actually doing anything useful
> on any GPU any more, so we can remove it.
> 
> Andrew

> amdgcn: remove unnecessary scalar cache flush
> 
> The exit code isn't actually written via the scalar cache so the cache flush
> is not actually needed.
> 
> diff --git a/newlib/libc/machine/amdgcn/exit-value.h b/newlib/libc/machine/amdgcn/exit-value.h
> index 7aa2508bb..6b9d2411b 100644
> --- a/newlib/libc/machine/amdgcn/exit-value.h
> +++ b/newlib/libc/machine/amdgcn/exit-value.h
> @@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ exit_with_int (int val)
>    *return_value = val;
>  
>    /* Terminate the current kernel.  */
> -  asm ("s_dcache_wb");
>    asm ("s_endpgm");
>    __builtin_unreachable ();
>  }

Pushed.

Thanks,
Corinna