[RFC PATCH 1/6] ARM: mm: define LoUIS API for cache maintenance ops
Russell King - ARM Linux
linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Thu Sep 13 08:36:04 EDT 2012
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:20:46AM +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> +/*
> + * Flush caches up to Level of Unification Inner Shareable
> + */
> +#ifdef MULTI_CACHE
> +#define flush_cache_louis() cpu_cache.flush_kern_cache_louis()
> +#else
> +#define flush_cache_louis() __cpuc_flush_kern_all()
> +#endif
NAK. This is broken as you don't seem to understand what MULTI_CACHE
actually means. MULTI_CACHE means that we _may_ support more than one
type of cache, so it not being selected means nothing as far as whether
to use flush_kern_all() or not.
Follow the pattern in the rest of the file - that's the _only_ way to do
this.
Note that ARMv6 only and ARMv7 only kernels will not have MULTI_CACHE
defined (I mentioned this on Monday in our call, though not explicitly
by that name.)
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S b/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
> index 2d8ff3a..28e91f8 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
> @@ -293,12 +293,17 @@ ENTRY(\name\()_processor_functions)
> .size \name\()_processor_functions, . - \name\()_processor_functions
> .endm
>
> -.macro define_cache_functions name:req
> +.macro define_cache_functions name:req, cachelouis=0
> .align 2
> .type \name\()_cache_fns, #object
> ENTRY(\name\()_cache_fns)
> .long \name\()_flush_icache_all
> .long \name\()_flush_kern_cache_all
> + .if \cachelouis
> + .long \name\()_flush_kern_cache_louis
> + .else
> + .long \name\()_flush_kern_cache_all
> + .endif
> .long \name\()_flush_user_cache_all
> .long \name\()_flush_user_cache_range
> .long \name\()_coherent_kern_range
And what the above means is that _every_ cache support file must supply a
XXX_flush_kern_cache_louis function name. If there is no separate
implementation, then name it an alias for the XXX_flush_cache_all function.
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