[PATCH 3/5] ARM64: Add Needs software prefetching cap
Andrew Pinski
apinski at cavium.com
Tue Jan 12 23:08:17 PST 2016
On ThunderX T88 pass 1 and pass 2 does not include
a hardware prefetching so the memory copying
functions are slower than necessary. This adds
a cpu feature for this.
The next patch will add the use in both copy_page
and copy_from_user/copy_to_user.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Pinski <apinski at cavium.com>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 3 ++-
arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
index 92aaac6..784bc63 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
@@ -32,8 +32,9 @@
#define ARM64_WORKAROUND_CAVIUM_23154 6
#define ARM64_WORKAROUND_834220 7
#define ARM64_WORKAROUND_CAVIUM_27456 8
+#define ARM64_NEEDS_PREFETCH_128 9
-#define ARM64_NCAPS 9
+#define ARM64_NCAPS 10
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index b0ee60e..13cda09 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -651,6 +651,12 @@ static const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities arm64_features[] = {
.min_field_value = 2,
},
#endif /* CONFIG_AS_LSE && CONFIG_ARM64_LSE_ATOMICS */
+ {
+ .desc = "Needs prefetching (128 byte cache line) for copying: ThunderX T88 pass 1.x and 2.x",
+ .capability = ARM64_NEEDS_PREFETCH_128,
+ MIDR_RANGE(MIDR_THUNDERX, 0,
+ (1 << MIDR_VARIANT_SHIFT) | MIDR_REVISION_MASK),
+ },
{},
};
--
1.7.2.5
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