[PATCH v3] ARM: l2c: add options to overwrite prefetching behavior
Hauke Mehrtens
hauke at hauke-m.de
Fri May 15 14:52:31 PDT 2015
These options make it possible to overwrites the data and instruction
prefetching behavior of the arm pl310 cache controller.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de>
---
v2: only set prefetch
v1: set prefetch and aux
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2cc.txt | 4 ++++
arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2cc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2cc.txt
index 0dbabe9..528821a 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2cc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2cc.txt
@@ -67,6 +67,10 @@ Optional properties:
disable if zero.
- arm,prefetch-offset : Override prefetch offset value. Valid values are
0-7, 15, 23, and 31.
+- arm,prefetch-data : Enable data prefetch. Enabling prefetching
+ can improve performance.
+- arm,prefetch-instr : Enable instruction prefetch. Enabling prefetching
+ can improve performance.
Example:
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c b/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c
index e309c8f..1aa970a 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c
@@ -1199,6 +1199,26 @@ static void __init l2c310_of_parse(const struct device_node *np,
pr_err("L2C-310 OF arm,prefetch-offset property value is missing\n");
}
+ ret = of_property_read_u32(np, "arm,prefetch-data", &val);
+ if (ret == 0) {
+ if (val)
+ prefetch |= L310_PREFETCH_CTRL_DATA_PREFETCH;
+ else
+ prefetch &= ~L310_PREFETCH_CTRL_DATA_PREFETCH;
+ } else if (ret != -EINVAL) {
+ pr_err("L2C-310 OF arm,prefetch-data property value is missing\n");
+ }
+
+ ret = of_property_read_u32(np, "arm,prefetch-instr", &val);
+ if (ret == 0) {
+ if (val)
+ prefetch |= L310_PREFETCH_CTRL_INSTR_PREFETCH;
+ else
+ prefetch &= ~L310_PREFETCH_CTRL_INSTR_PREFETCH;
+ } else if (ret != -EINVAL) {
+ pr_err("L2C-310 OF arm,prefetch-instr property value is missing\n");
+ }
+
l2x0_saved_regs.prefetch_ctrl = prefetch;
}
--
2.1.4
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