[PATCH 1/3] RISC-V: Output cbom-block-size

Conor.Dooley at microchip.com Conor.Dooley at microchip.com
Tue Sep 6 02:00:20 PDT 2022


On 06/09/2022 09:55, Andrew Jones wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 08:40:23AM +0000, Conor.Dooley at microchip.com wrote:
>> On 06/09/2022 09:35, Andrew Jones wrote:
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>>> Provide an info message with the block size when the Zicbom extension is
>>> present and the block size has been determined.
>>
>> Why might someone care about this?
> 
> I was unaware of anywhere else besides hardware descriptions where this is
> published. And, while dmesg isn't really publishing it in a way that is
> useful to anything other than human readers either, it at least makes it
> easy for a user to check it for sanity purposes (which is what I used it
> for) or even for applying it if they want to write something that needs it
> and the OS provides U-mode access to CMO.
> 
> I'm not married to the idea, though, so if people would rather have less
> logs than this information, then I'm fine with dropping the patch.

I don't really care either way about logging it, if it helps people to
be able to see it perhaps there's a better location than dmesg -
would {debug,sys}fs be overkill?

I was just more interested in the motivation behind the change itself.
Maybe some of the above in the commit message wuld be nice?

> 
> Thanks,
> drew
> 
>>
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <ajones at ventanamicro.com>
>>> ---
>>>    arch/riscv/mm/cacheflush.c | 4 +++-
>>>    1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/cacheflush.c b/arch/riscv/mm/cacheflush.c
>>> index e5b087be1577..8595baf8e403 100644
>>> --- a/arch/riscv/mm/cacheflush.c
>>> +++ b/arch/riscv/mm/cacheflush.c
>>> @@ -122,7 +122,9 @@ void riscv_init_cbom_blocksize(void)
>>>                   }
>>>           }
>>>
>>> -       if (probed_block_size)
>>> +       if (probed_block_size) {
>>>                   riscv_cbom_block_size = probed_block_size;
>>> +               pr_info("riscv: Zicbom: Cache blocksize is %u bytes", probed_block_size);
>>> +       }
>>>    }
>>>    #endif
>>> --
>>> 2.37.2
>>>
>>



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