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

Lorenzo Pieralisi lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com
Fri Jul 8 06:54:03 EDT 2011


On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 03:19:51AM +0100, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> 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.
> 

Disabling L2 is implicitly a cache sync.

> > +	/*
> > +	 * 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. :(

I thought about that before posting. I have to split the function in two
and skip the register saving conditionally in the framework.
I would leave the clean/invalidate code in a separate hook or make
the register saving conditional, which is the best option I think.

Lorenzo




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