[PATCH v4 00/15] multi-cluster power management

[Dave Martin]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 05:03:06PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2013, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> 
> > What I suggest for the time being is to provide new inline function(s)
> > in arch/arm/include/cacheflush.h which are purposed for your application,
> > document them in that file, and call the implementation you're currently
> > using.  That means if we do have to change it in the future (for example,
> > we don't need to do anything in the dcache flushing stuff) we don't have
> > to hunt through all the code to find _your_ different use of that function
> > and fix it - we can just fix it in one place and we have the reference
> > there for what your code expects.
> 
> What about the patch below?  Once you tell me it is fine to you I'll 
> adapt the MCPM series to it.

This looks appropriate for mcpm's needs, and generic enough for other
code to reuse.  Thanks for that.

Acked-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin at linaro.org>

> 
> ----- >8
> From: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre at linaro.org>
> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:45:40 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] ARM: cacheflush: add synchronization helpers for mixed cache state accesses
> 
> Algorithms used by the MCPM layer rely on state variables which are
> accessed while the cache is either active or inactive, depending
> on the code path and the active state.
> 
> This patch introduces generic cache maintenance helpers to provide the
> necessary cache synchronization for such state variables to always hit
> main memory in a ordered way.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico at linaro.org>
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
> index e1489c54cd..bff71388e7 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
> @@ -363,4 +363,79 @@ static inline void flush_cache_vunmap(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
>  		flush_cache_all();
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * Memory synchronization helpers for mixed cached vs non cached accesses.
> + *
> + * Some synchronization algorithms have to set states in memory with the
> + * cache enabled or disabled depending on the code path.  It is crucial
> + * to always ensure proper cache maintenance to update main memory right
> + * away in that case.
> + *
> + * Any cached write must be followed by a cache clean operation.
> + * Any cached read must be preceded by a cache invalidate operation.
> + * Yet, in the read case, a cache flush i.e. atomic clean+invalidate
> + * operation is needed to avoid discarding possible concurrent writes to the
> + * accessed memory.
> + *
> + * Also, in order to prevent a cached writer from interfering with an
> + * adjacent non-cached writer, each state variable must be located to
> + * a separate cache line.
> + */
> +
> +/*
> + * This needs to be >= the max cache writeback size of all
> + * supported platforms included in the current kernel configuration.
> + * This is used to align state variables to their own cache lines.
> + */
> +#define __CACHE_WRITEBACK_ORDER 6  /* guessed from existing platforms */
> +#define __CACHE_WRITEBACK_GRANULE (1 << __CACHE_WRITEBACK_ORDER)
> +
> +/*
> + * There is no __cpuc_clean_dcache_area but we use it anyway for
> + * code intent clarity, and alias it to __cpuc_flush_dcache_area.
> + */
> +#define __cpuc_clean_dcache_area __cpuc_flush_dcache_area
> +
> +/*
> + * Ensure preceding writes to *p by this CPU are visible to
> + * subsequent reads by other CPUs:
> + */
> +static inline void __sync_cache_range_w(volatile void *p, size_t size)
> +{
> +	char *_p = (char *)p;
> +
> +	__cpuc_clean_dcache_area(_p, size);
> +	outer_clean_range(__pa(_p), __pa(_p + size));
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Ensure preceding writes to *p by other CPUs are visible to
> + * subsequent reads by this CPU.  We must be careful not to
> + * discard data simultaneously written by another CPU, hence the
> + * usage of flush rather than invalidate operations.
> + */
> +static inline void __sync_cache_range_r(volatile void *p, size_t size)
> +{
> +	char *_p = (char *)p;
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_OUTER_CACHE
> +	if (outer_cache.flush_range) {
> +		/*
> +		 * Ensure dirty data migrated from other CPUs into our cache
> +		 * are cleaned out safely before the outer cache is cleaned:
> +		 */
> +		__cpuc_clean_dcache_area(_p, size);
> +
> +		/* Clean and invalidate stale data for *p from outer ... */
> +		outer_flush_range(__pa(_p), __pa(_p + size));
> +	}
> +#endif
> +
> +	/* ... and inner cache: */
> +	__cpuc_flush_dcache_area(_p, size);
> +}
> +
> +#define sync_cache_w(ptr) __sync_cache_range_w(ptr, sizeof *(ptr))
> +#define sync_cache_r(ptr) __sync_cache_range_r(ptr, sizeof *(ptr))
> +
>  #endif