• Disable data prefetching in a Cortex-A53 running Android

    Dear Experts,

    I would like to disable the data prefetching engines of the L1 and L2 caches on a MediaTek-X20 board which includes a quad Cortex-A53 cluster and runs Android.

    I have tried to include in the Linux kernel code (at kernel/init/main.c) a call…