[PATCH V6 3/6] arm: cache-l2x0: add support for Aurora L2 cache ctrl

Gregory CLEMENT gregory.clement at free-electrons.com
Mon Nov 5 18:50:29 EST 2012


On 11/04/2012 11:32 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:23:10PM +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
>> On 10/23/2012 12:00 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:43:02AM +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
>>>> On 10/23/2012 11:01 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:35:23AM +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
>>>>>> Aurora Cache Controller was designed to be compatible with the ARM L2
>>>>>> Cache Controller. It comes with some difference or improvement such
>>>>>> as:
>>>>>> - no cache id part number available through hardware (need to get it
>>>>>>   by the DT).
>>>>>> - always write through mode available.
>>>>>> - two flavors of the controller outer cache and system cache (meaning
>>>>>>   maintenance operations on L1 are broadcasted to the L2 and L2
>>>>>>   performs the same operation).
>>>>>> - in outer cache mode, the cache maintenance operations are improved and
>>>>>>   can be done on a range inside a page and are not limited to a cache
>>>>>>   line.
>>>>>
>>>>> This adds new build warnings:
>>>>>
>>>>> arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c:328:13: warning: 'aurora_inv_range' defined but not used
>>>>> arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c:347:13: warning: 'aurora_clean_range' defined but not used
>>>>> arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c:365:13: warning: 'aurora_flush_range' defined but not used
>>>>>
>>>>> to the realview build (non-DT).  Please investigate, thanks.
>>>>
>>>> OK I found the problem: aurora cache support is new so it is only
>>>> enable with device tree support. I moved all this functions in the
>>>> under OF_CONFIG (see the patch below). Do you want I submit it on the
>>>> patch system, or can you get it directly from this email?
>>>
>>> Easier by the patch system, and much less likely to get buried and lost
>>> between now and when I do the update, thanks.
>>>
>> OK, the initial patch 7547/1 was superseded by the patch 7547/2 that I have just
>> pushed in the patch system. I hope I have done it right.
> 
> I know it's been a while, but it looks like it's still producing a warning.
> 
> arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c:37:12: warning: 'l2_wt_override' defined but not used
> 
> This seems to be used only by the aurora code, which is wholely contained
> within a CONFIG_OF block, and this is outside of said block...

The initial patch 7547/2 was superseded by the patch 7547/3 that I have just
pushed in the patch system. Last time first I fixed the code then I used the
versatile_defconfig configuration to test the compilation and didn't realize
that it did set CONFIG_OF by default.

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