[PATCH] arm64: Implement cache_line_size() based on CTR_EL0.CWG
Will Deacon
will.deacon at arm.com
Fri May 2 10:12:47 PDT 2014
On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 04:55:32PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> The hardware provides the maximum cache line size in the system via the
> CTR_EL0.CWG bits. This patch implements the cache_line_size() function
> to read such information, together with a sanity check if the statically
> defined L1_CACHE_BYTES is smaller than the hardware value.
>
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 3 +++
> arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h | 13 ++++++++++++-
> arch/arm64/include/asm/cachetype.h | 11 +++++++++++
> arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
> 4 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index e759af5d7098..9a5b5fea86ba 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -242,6 +242,9 @@ config ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE
> config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
> def_bool y
>
> +config ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE
> + def_bool y
> +
> source "mm/Kconfig"
>
> config XEN_DOM0
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h
> index 390308a67f0d..88cc05b5f3ac 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h
> @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
> #ifndef __ASM_CACHE_H
> #define __ASM_CACHE_H
>
> +#include <asm/cachetype.h>
> +
> #define L1_CACHE_SHIFT 6
> #define L1_CACHE_BYTES (1 << L1_CACHE_SHIFT)
>
> @@ -27,6 +29,15 @@
> * the CPU.
> */
> #define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN L1_CACHE_BYTES
> -#define ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN 8
> +
> +#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
> +
> +static inline int cache_line_size(void)
> +{
> + u32 cwg = cache_type_cwg();
> + return cwg ? 4 << cwg : L1_CACHE_BYTES;
> +}
Hmmm, but the CWG is not the same thing as the L1 cache line size, so
something is amiss here. If I have an L2 cache with bigger lines, then
reporting L1_CACHE_BYTES is wrong here.
Will
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