[PATCH] ARM: i.MX: initialize l2x0 at early_init time
Jason Liu
liu.h.jason at gmail.com
Thu Aug 25 22:34:27 EDT 2011
Hi, Arnaud,
2011/8/24 Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard at rtp-net.org>:
> Jason Liu <jason.hui at linaro.org> writes:
>
>> This can make the l2 cache work at early time which
>> will benefit the boot up time.
>>
>> Tested on i.mx31pdk board, test result shows:
>> Before:
>> [ 0.555716] console [ttymxc0] enabled
>>
>> After:
>> [ 0.558755] console [ttymxc0] enabled
>
> 0.555716-0.558755 is negative, so it's slower with the patch ?
>
> Sorry :)
Sorry, the commit log has some error, here is the test result:
Before: arch_initcall(mxc_init_l2x0);
[ 0.000000] Linux version 3.1.0-rc3-00006-gaa94168-dirty
(r64343 at r64343-desktop) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Sourcery G++ Lite 2009q1
-203) ) #6 PREEMPT Wed Aug 24 20:27:59 CST 2011
[ 0.000000] CPU: ARMv6-compatible processor [4107b364] revision 4
(ARMv6TEJ), cr=00c5387f
[ 0.000000] CPU: VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT nonaliasing
instruction cache
[ 0.000000] Machine: Freescale MX31PDK (3DS)
[ 0.000000] Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.
Total pages: 30464
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: noinitrd console=ttymxc0,115200
root=/dev/mtdblock2 rw ip=off
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 512 (order: -1, 2048 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Memory: 120MB = 120MB total
[ 0.000000] Memory: 117708k/117708k available, 13364k reserved, 0K highmem
[ 0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout:
[ 0.000000] vector : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000 ( 4 kB)
[ 0.000000] fixmap : 0xfff00000 - 0xfffe0000 ( 896 kB)
[ 0.000000] DMA : 0xff600000 - 0xffe00000 ( 8 MB)
[ 0.000000] vmalloc : 0xc8800000 - 0xf4000000 ( 696 MB)
[ 0.000000] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xc8000000 ( 128 MB)
[ 0.000000] modules : 0xbf000000 - 0xc0000000 ( 16 MB)
[ 0.000000] .text : 0xc0008000 - 0xc038e724 (3610 kB)
[ 0.000000] .init : 0xc038f000 - 0xc03ad000 ( 120 kB)
[ 0.000000] .data : 0xc03ae000 - 0xc03d77a0 ( 166 kB)
[ 0.000000] .bss : 0xc03d77c4 - 0xc03e9498 ( 72 kB)
[ 0.000000] Preemptible hierarchical RCU implementation.
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:404
[ 0.000000] MXC IRQ initialized
[ 0.000000] Clock input source is 26000000
[ 0.000000] CPU identified as i.MX31, silicon rev 2.8
[ 0.000000] sched_clock: 32 bits at 66MHz, resolution 15ns, wraps
every 64585ms
[ 0.000244] Calibrating delay loop... 531.66 BogoMIPS (lpj=2658304)
[ 0.050233] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.050778] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[ 0.051712] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[ 0.055422] print_constraints: dummy:
[ 0.055827] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.059721] 3-Stack Debug board detected, rev = 0x0200
[ 0.061429] L210 cache controller enabled
[ 0.061462] l2x0: 8 ways, CACHE_ID 0x41000040, AUX_CTRL 0x00030024,
Cache size: 131072 B
[ 0.065331] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
[ 0.071137] Switching to clocksource mxc_timer1
[ 0.072724] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 0.073146] IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.074338] TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[ 0.074492] TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 0.074593] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
[ 0.074612] TCP reno registered
[ 0.074633] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.074673] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.075086] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 0.075806] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
[ 0.075832] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[ 0.075848] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[ 0.075864] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
[ 0.080406] Switched to NOHz mode on CPU #0
[ 0.082045] JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[ 0.082709] msgmni has been set to 229
[ 0.082948] io scheduler noop registered
[ 0.082968] io scheduler deadline registered
[ 0.083108] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[ 0.211233] mx3_sdc_fb mx3_sdc_fb: registered, using mode Epson-VGA
[ 0.212623] Serial: IMX driver
[ 0.212815] imx21-uart.0: ttymxc0 at MMIO 0x43f90000 (irq = 45) is a IMX
[ 0.558755] console [ttymxc0] enabled
...
After: early_initcall(mxc_init_l2x0);
[ 0.000000] Linux version 3.1.0-rc3-00006-gaa94168-dirty
(r64343 at r64343-desktop) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Sourcery G++ Lite 2009q1
-203) ) #5 PREEMPT Wed Aug 24 20:26:24 CST 2011
[ 0.000000] CPU: ARMv6-compatible processor [4107b364] revision 4
(ARMv6TEJ), cr=00c5387f
[ 0.000000] CPU: VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT nonaliasing
instruction cache
[ 0.000000] Machine: Freescale MX31PDK (3DS)
[ 0.000000] Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.
Total pages: 30464
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: noinitrd console=ttymxc0,115200
root=/dev/mtdblock2 rw ip=off
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 512 (order: -1, 2048 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Memory: 120MB = 120MB total
[ 0.000000] Memory: 117708k/117708k available, 13364k reserved, 0K highmem
[ 0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout:
[ 0.000000] vector : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000 ( 4 kB)
[ 0.000000] fixmap : 0xfff00000 - 0xfffe0000 ( 896 kB)
[ 0.000000] DMA : 0xff600000 - 0xffe00000 ( 8 MB)
[ 0.000000] vmalloc : 0xc8800000 - 0xf4000000 ( 696 MB)
[ 0.000000] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xc8000000 ( 128 MB)
[ 0.000000] modules : 0xbf000000 - 0xc0000000 ( 16 MB)
[ 0.000000] .text : 0xc0008000 - 0xc038e724 (3610 kB)
[ 0.000000] .init : 0xc038f000 - 0xc03ad000 ( 120 kB)
[ 0.000000] .data : 0xc03ae000 - 0xc03d77a0 ( 166 kB)
[ 0.000000] .bss : 0xc03d77c4 - 0xc03e9498 ( 72 kB)
[ 0.000000] Preemptible hierarchical RCU implementation.
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:404
[ 0.000000] MXC IRQ initialized
[ 0.000000] Clock input source is 26000000
[ 0.000000] CPU identified as i.MX31, silicon rev 2.8
[ 0.000000] sched_clock: 32 bits at 66MHz, resolution 15ns, wraps
every 64585ms
[ 0.000244] Calibrating delay loop... 531.66 BogoMIPS (lpj=2658304)
[ 0.050233] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.050782] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[ 0.051715] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[ 0.052159] L210 cache controller enabled
[ 0.052195] l2x0: 8 ways, CACHE_ID 0x41000040, AUX_CTRL 0x00030024,
Cache size: 131072 B
[ 0.054546] print_constraints: dummy:
[ 0.054810] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.057539] 3-Stack Debug board detected, rev = 0x0200
[ 0.062335] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
[ 0.068090] Switching to clocksource mxc_timer1
[ 0.069667] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 0.070093] IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.070262] Switched to NOHz mode on CPU #0
[ 0.071452] TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[ 0.071608] TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 0.071708] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
[ 0.071728] TCP reno registered
[ 0.071749] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.071789] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.072201] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 0.072924] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
[ 0.072949] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[ 0.072965] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[ 0.072981] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
[ 0.079071] JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[ 0.079742] msgmni has been set to 229
[ 0.079982] io scheduler noop registered
[ 0.080001] io scheduler deadline registered
[ 0.080139] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[ 0.208186] mx3_sdc_fb mx3_sdc_fb: registered, using mode Epson-VGA
[ 0.209581] Serial: IMX driver
[ 0.209770] imx21-uart.0: ttymxc0 at MMIO 0x43f90000 (irq = 45) is a IMX
[ 0.555716] console [ttymxc0] enabled
I will send out one updated version.
Jason
>
> Arnaud
>
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