[PATCH 4/4] [ARM] dma-mapping: add support for inner-writeback pages
Gary King
gking at nvidia.com
Mon Aug 2 22:42:49 EDT 2010
add support for pages allocated with the inner-writeback
allocation attribute to the cache flush and DMA cache maintenance
code.
pages allocated from the attribute page allocator with the inner-
writeback attribute selected can bypass outer cache maintenance,
since outer cachelines will not be allocated for these pages.
this results in a significant reduction in the time spent performing
cache maintenance for these pages.
Signed-off-by: Gary King <gking at nvidia.com>
---
arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c | 23 +++++++++++++++--------
arch/arm/mm/flush.c | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
index fa94be5..5de376a 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
@@ -488,16 +488,20 @@ void ___dma_page_cpu_to_dev(struct page *page, unsigned long off,
if (PageUncached(page) &&
!(page_private(page) == L_PTE_MT_WRITEBACK ||
page_private(page) == L_PTE_MT_WRITEALLOC ||
- page_private(page) == L_PTE_MT_DEV_CACHED))
+ page_private(page) == L_PTE_MT_DEV_CACHED ||
+ page_private(page) == L_PTE_MT_INNER_WB))
return;
dma_cache_maint_page(page, off, size, dir, dmac_map_area);
paddr = page_to_phys(page) + off;
- if (dir == DMA_FROM_DEVICE) {
- outer_inv_range(paddr, paddr + size);
- } else {
- outer_clean_range(paddr, paddr + size);
+
+ if (!PageUncached(page) || (page_private(page) != L_PTE_MT_INNER_WB)) {
+ if (dir == DMA_FROM_DEVICE) {
+ outer_inv_range(paddr, paddr + size);
+ } else {
+ outer_clean_range(paddr, paddr + size);
+ }
}
/* FIXME: non-speculating: flush on bidirectional mappings? */
}
@@ -511,15 +515,18 @@ void ___dma_page_dev_to_cpu(struct page *page, unsigned long off,
if (PageUncached(page) &&
!(page_private(page) == L_PTE_MT_WRITEBACK ||
page_private(page) == L_PTE_MT_WRITEALLOC ||
- page_private(page) == L_PTE_MT_DEV_CACHED))
+ page_private(page) == L_PTE_MT_DEV_CACHED ||
+ page_private(page) == L_PTE_MT_INNER_WB))
return;
paddr = page_to_phys(page) + off;
/* FIXME: non-speculating: not required */
/* don't bother invalidating if DMA to device */
- if (dir != DMA_TO_DEVICE)
- outer_inv_range(paddr, paddr + size);
+ if (!PageUncached(page) || (page_private(page) != L_PTE_MT_INNER_WB)) {
+ if (dir != DMA_TO_DEVICE)
+ outer_inv_range(paddr, paddr + size);
+ }
dma_cache_maint_page(page, off, size, dir, dmac_unmap_area);
}
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/flush.c b/arch/arm/mm/flush.c
index 33e900a..4f6f115 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/flush.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/flush.c
@@ -160,7 +160,8 @@ void __flush_dcache_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
if (PageUncached(page) &&
!(page_private(page) == L_PTE_MT_WRITEBACK ||
page_private(page) == L_PTE_MT_WRITEALLOC ||
- page_private(page) == L_PTE_MT_DEV_CACHED))
+ page_private(page) == L_PTE_MT_DEV_CACHED ||
+ page_private(page) == L_PTE_MT_INNER_WB))
return;
/*
* Writeback any data associated with the kernel mapping of this
--
1.7.0.4
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