[PATCH 3/6] ARM: Add Krait L2 accessor functions

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Mon Oct 28 21:19:43 EDT 2013


On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:31:27AM +0000, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Qualcomm's Krait CPUs have a handful of L2 cache controller
> registers that live behind a cp15 based indirection register.
> First you program the indirection register (l2cpselr) to point
> the L2 'window' register (l2cpdr) at what you want to read/write.
> Then you read/write the 'window' register to do what you want.
> The l2cpselr register is not banked per-cpu so we must lock
> around accesses to it to prevent other CPUs from re-pointing
> l2cpdr underneath us.
> 
> Cc: Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm/common/Kconfig                   |  3 ++
>  arch/arm/common/Makefile                  |  1 +
>  arch/arm/common/krait-l2-accessors.c      | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/arm/include/asm/krait-l2-accessors.h | 20 ++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 76 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/common/krait-l2-accessors.c
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/include/asm/krait-l2-accessors.h

[...]

> +void set_l2_indirect_reg(u32 addr, u32 val)
> +{
> +	unsigned long flags;
> +
> +	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&krait_l2_lock, flags);
> +
> +	asm volatile ("mcr p15, 3, %0, c15, c0, 6" : : "r" (addr));
> +	isb();
> +	asm volatile ("mcr p15, 3, %0, c15, c0, 7" : : "r" (val));
> +	isb();
> +
> +	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&krait_l2_lock, flags);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_l2_indirect_reg);

It might be worth commmenting inline as to what register each of these is
accessing. Inevitably the commit message will become harder to find and
associate with the code over time.

Similarly for get_l2_indirect_reg.

Thanks,
Mark.



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