[PATCH 1/3] ARM: uniphier: add outer cache support

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Tue Sep 8 06:09:54 PDT 2015


On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro at socionext.com> wrote:
> 2015-08-26 22:39 GMT+09:00 Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>:

>> cache-unified and cache-level are *not* optional and should be required.
>
> "cache-unified" is mentioned in "3.7.3 Internal (L1) Cache Properties"
> (Table 3-8),
> but it is not in "3.8 Multi-level and Shared Caches" (Table 3-9)
>
> Are the rules in Table 3-8 also applied for L2?

Your guess is as good as mine unless someone involved in
actually writing that spec says something :/

>> (I'm just assuming this cache is unified, anything else would be baffling.)
>
> In fact, unified/harvard is configurable thru a register of this cache
> controller.

Jesus Christ.

> It is usually used as a unified cached, though.

I would, too.

> So,I am planning to use the same compatible for L2 and L3, like this:
>
>
>        l2-cache at 500c0000 {
>                compatible = "socionext,uniphier-cache";
>                reg = <0x500c0000 0x2000>, <0x503c0100 0x8>,
>                      <0x506c0000 0x400>;
>                cache-unified;
>                cache-level = <2>;
>                next-level-cache = <&L2>;
>                cache-size = <0x200000>;
>                cache-sets = <256>;
>                cache-line-size = <128>;
>             };
>
>        /* Not all of UniPhier SoCs have L3 cache */
>        l3-cache at 500c8000 {
>                compatible = "socionext,uniphier-cache";
>                reg = <0x500c8000 0x2000>, <0x503c8100 0x8>,
>                      <0x506c8000 0x400>;
>                cache-unified;
>                cache-level = <3>;
>                cache-size = <0x400000>;
>                cache-sets = <256>;
>                cache-line-size = <256>;
>        };

This LooksGoodToMe.

> The Table 3-9 in ePAPR v1.1 says
> the compatible should be "cache", but I do not think it makes sense here.

Agree.

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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