[PATCH] arm64: mm: use ubfm for dcache_line_size
Jingoo Han
jg1.han at samsung.com
Sun Jan 19 21:04:31 EST 2014
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Will Deacon [mailto:will.deacon at arm.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 8:13 PM
> To: Jingoo Han
> Cc: Catalin Marinas; linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: mm: use ubfm for dcache_line_size
>
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 08:04:32AM +0000, Jingoo Han wrote:
> > Use 'ubfm' for the bitfield move instruction; thus, single
> > instruction can be used instead of two instructions, when
> > getting the minimum D-cache line size from CTR_EL0 register.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han at samsung.com>
> > ---
> > arch/arm64/mm/proc-macros.S | 3 +--
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/proc-macros.S b/arch/arm64/mm/proc-macros.S
> > index 8957b82..c31f41e 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/mm/proc-macros.S
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/proc-macros.S
> > @@ -38,8 +38,7 @@
> > */
> > .macro dcache_line_size, reg, tmp
> > mrs \tmp, ctr_el0 // read CTR
> > - lsr \tmp, \tmp, #16
> > - and \tmp, \tmp, #0xf // cache line size encoding
> > + ubfm \tmp, \tmp, #0x16, 0x19 // cache line size encoding
>
> 0x16 and 0x19. Are you sure?
(+cc Ard Biesheuvel)
Oh, it's my mistake.
CTR_EL0[19:16] is a proper bit-field; it means 'DminLine'.
So, I will fit it as below:
ubfm \tmp, \tmp, #16, #19
>
> You can also grep for other occurences of this pattern and change
> those too (pgtable stuff in head.S, clidr in cache.S).
OK, I will change others of this pattern.
I appreciate your comments. :-)
Best regards,
Jingoo Han
More information about the linux-arm-kernel
mailing list