[RFC PATCH 13/17] ARM: mm: L2x0 save/restore support

Santosh Shilimkar santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Thu Jul 7 22:19:51 EDT 2011


On 7/7/2011 8:50 AM, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> When the system hits deep low power states the L2 cache controller
> can lose its internal logic values and possibly its TAG/DATA RAM content.
>
> This patch adds save/restore hooks to the L2x0 subsystem to save/restore
> L2x0 registers and clean/invalidate/disable the cache controller as
> needed.
>
> The cache controller has to go to power down disabled even if its
> RAM(s) are retained to prevent it from sending AXI transactions on the
> bus when the cluster is shut-down which might leave the system in a
> limbo state.
>
> Hence the save function cleans (completely or partially) L2 and disable
> it in one single function to avoid playing with cacheable stack and
> flush data to L3.
>
> The current code saving context for retention mode is still a hack and must be
> improved.
>
> Fully tested on dual-core A9 cluster.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi<lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com>
> ---
>   arch/arm/include/asm/outercache.h |   22 +++++++++++++
>   arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c          |   63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   2 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/outercache.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/outercache.h
> index d838743..0437c21 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/outercache.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/outercache.h
> @@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ struct outer_cache_fns {
>   	void (*sync)(void);
>   #endif
>   	void (*set_debug)(unsigned long);
> +	void (*save_context)(void *, bool, unsigned long);
> +	void (*restore_context)(void *, bool);
>   };
>
>   #ifdef CONFIG_OUTER_CACHE
> @@ -74,6 +76,19 @@ static inline void outer_disable(void)
>   		outer_cache.disable();
>   }
>
> +static inline void outer_save_context(void *data, bool dormant,
> +					phys_addr_t end)
> +{
> +	if (outer_cache.save_context)
> +		outer_cache.save_context(data, dormant, end);
> +}
> +
> +static inline void outer_restore_context(void *data, bool dormant)
> +{
> +	if (outer_cache.restore_context)
> +		outer_cache.restore_context(data, dormant);
> +}
> +
>   #else
>
>   static inline void outer_inv_range(phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t end)
> @@ -86,6 +101,13 @@ static inline void outer_flush_all(void) { }
>   static inline void outer_inv_all(void) { }
>   static inline void outer_disable(void) { }
>
> +static inline void outer_save_context(void *data, bool dormant,
> +					phys_addr_t end)
> +{ }
> +
> +static inline void outer_restore_context(void *data, bool dormant)
> +{ }
> +
>   #endif
>
>   #ifdef CONFIG_OUTER_CACHE_SYNC
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c b/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c
> index ef59099..331fe9b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c
> @@ -270,6 +270,67 @@ static void l2x0_disable(void)
>   	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&l2x0_lock, flags);
>   }
>
> +static void l2x0_save_context(void *data, bool dormant, unsigned long end)
> +{
> +	u32 *l2x0_regs = (u32 *) data;
> +	*l2x0_regs =  readl_relaxed(l2x0_base + L2X0_AUX_CTRL);
> +	l2x0_regs++;
> +	*l2x0_regs =  readl_relaxed(l2x0_base + L2X0_TAG_LATENCY_CTRL);
> +	l2x0_regs++;
> +	*l2x0_regs =  readl_relaxed(l2x0_base + L2X0_DATA_LATENCY_CTRL);
> +
> +	if (!dormant) {
> +		/* clean entire L2 before disabling it*/
> +		writel_relaxed(l2x0_way_mask, l2x0_base + L2X0_CLEAN_WAY);
> +		cache_wait_way(l2x0_base + L2X0_CLEAN_WAY, l2x0_way_mask);
> +	} else {
> +		/*
> +		 * This is an ugly hack, which is there to clean
> +		 * the stack from L2 before disabling it
> +		 * The only alternative consists in using a non-cacheable stack
> +		 * but it is poor in terms of performance since it is only
> +		 * needed for cluster shutdown and L2 retention
> +		 * On L2 off mode the cache is cleaned anyway
> +		 */
> +		register unsigned long start asm("sp");
> +		start&= ~(CACHE_LINE_SIZE - 1);
> +		while (start<  end) {
> +			cache_wait(l2x0_base + L2X0_CLEAN_LINE_PA, 1);
> +			writel_relaxed(__pa(start), l2x0_base +
> +					L2X0_CLEAN_LINE_PA);
> +			start += CACHE_LINE_SIZE;
> +		}
> +	}

I think you need a cache_sync() here.

> +	/*
> +	 * disable the cache implicitly syncs
> +	 */
> +	writel_relaxed(0, l2x0_base + L2X0_CTRL);
> +}
> +
> +static void l2x0_restore_context(void *data, bool dormant)
> +{
> +	u32 *l2x0_regs = (u32 *) data;
> +
> +	if (!(readl_relaxed(l2x0_base + L2X0_CTRL)&  1)) {
> +
> +		writel_relaxed(*l2x0_regs, l2x0_base + L2X0_AUX_CTRL);
> +		l2x0_regs++;
> +		writel_relaxed(*l2x0_regs, l2x0_base + L2X0_TAG_LATENCY_CTRL);
> +		l2x0_regs++;
> +		writel_relaxed(*l2x0_regs, l2x0_base + L2X0_DATA_LATENCY_CTRL);
> +		/*
> +		 * If L2 is retained do not invalidate
> +		 */
> +		if (!dormant) {
> +			writel_relaxed(l2x0_way_mask, l2x0_base + L2X0_INV_WAY);
> +			cache_wait_way(l2x0_base + L2X0_INV_WAY, l2x0_way_mask);
> +			cache_sync();
> +		}
> +
> +		writel_relaxed(1, l2x0_base + L2X0_CTRL);

Sorry for giving comments on OMAP needs. None of the above registers
are accessible from non-secure SW. They need a secure API to set them.
This one too like GIC looks not useful in it's current form. :(

Regards
Santosh



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