[PATCH] arm64: dts: allwinner: Add cache information to the SoC dtsi for A64
Andre Przywara
andre.przywara at arm.com
Mon Apr 29 03:33:21 PDT 2024
On Sun, 28 Apr 2024 13:40:35 +0200
Dragan Simic <dsimic at manjaro.org> wrote:
Hi,
thanks for taking care of this!
> Add missing cache information to the Allwinner A64 SoC dtsi, to allow
> the userspace, which includes lscpu(1) that uses the virtual files provided
> by the kernel under the /sys/devices/system/cpu directory, to display the
> proper A64 cache information.
>
> While there, use a more self-descriptive label for the L2 cache node, which
> also makes it more consistent with other SoC dtsi files.
>
> The cache parameters for the A64 dtsi were obtained and partially derived
> by hand from the cache size and layout specifications found in the following
> datasheets and technical reference manuals:
>
> - Allwinner A64 datasheet, version 1.1
> - ARM Cortex-A53 revision r0p3 TRM, version E
>
> For future reference, here's a brief summary of the documentation:
>
> - All caches employ the 64-byte cache line length
> - Each Cortex-A53 core has 32 KB of L1 2-way, set-associative instruction
> cache and 32 KB of L1 4-way, set-associative data cache
> - The entire SoC has 512 KB of unified L2 16-way, set-associative cache
So that looks correct when checking the manuals, and the per-CPU
entries below match both between themselves and with that description
above.
However I have some level of distrust towards the Allwinner manuals,
regarding the cache sizes (which are chosen by Allwinner).
So while I haven't measured this myself, nor checked the cache type
registers, tinymembench's memory latency test supports those sizes are
correct:
https://github.com/ssvb/tinymembench/wiki/PINE64-(Allwinner-A64)
> Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic at manjaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
Cheers,
Andre
> ---
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-a64.dtsi | 37 ++++++++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-a64.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-a64.dtsi
> index 57ac18738c99..86074d03afa9 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-a64.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-a64.dtsi
> @@ -51,49 +51,76 @@ cpu0: cpu at 0 {
> device_type = "cpu";
> reg = <0>;
> enable-method = "psci";
> - next-level-cache = <&L2>;
> clocks = <&ccu CLK_CPUX>;
> clock-names = "cpu";
> #cooling-cells = <2>;
> + i-cache-size = <0x8000>;
> + i-cache-line-size = <64>;
> + i-cache-sets = <256>;
> + d-cache-size = <0x8000>;
> + d-cache-line-size = <64>;
> + d-cache-sets = <128>;
> + next-level-cache = <&l2_cache>;
> };
>
> cpu1: cpu at 1 {
> compatible = "arm,cortex-a53";
> device_type = "cpu";
> reg = <1>;
> enable-method = "psci";
> - next-level-cache = <&L2>;
> clocks = <&ccu CLK_CPUX>;
> clock-names = "cpu";
> #cooling-cells = <2>;
> + i-cache-size = <0x8000>;
> + i-cache-line-size = <64>;
> + i-cache-sets = <256>;
> + d-cache-size = <0x8000>;
> + d-cache-line-size = <64>;
> + d-cache-sets = <128>;
> + next-level-cache = <&l2_cache>;
> };
>
> cpu2: cpu at 2 {
> compatible = "arm,cortex-a53";
> device_type = "cpu";
> reg = <2>;
> enable-method = "psci";
> - next-level-cache = <&L2>;
> clocks = <&ccu CLK_CPUX>;
> clock-names = "cpu";
> #cooling-cells = <2>;
> + i-cache-size = <0x8000>;
> + i-cache-line-size = <64>;
> + i-cache-sets = <256>;
> + d-cache-size = <0x8000>;
> + d-cache-line-size = <64>;
> + d-cache-sets = <128>;
> + next-level-cache = <&l2_cache>;
> };
>
> cpu3: cpu at 3 {
> compatible = "arm,cortex-a53";
> device_type = "cpu";
> reg = <3>;
> enable-method = "psci";
> - next-level-cache = <&L2>;
> clocks = <&ccu CLK_CPUX>;
> clock-names = "cpu";
> #cooling-cells = <2>;
> + i-cache-size = <0x8000>;
> + i-cache-line-size = <64>;
> + i-cache-sets = <256>;
> + d-cache-size = <0x8000>;
> + d-cache-line-size = <64>;
> + d-cache-sets = <128>;
> + next-level-cache = <&l2_cache>;
> };
>
> - L2: l2-cache {
> + l2_cache: l2-cache {
> compatible = "cache";
> cache-level = <2>;
> cache-unified;
> + cache-size = <0x80000>;
> + cache-line-size = <64>;
> + cache-sets = <512>;
> };
> };
>
>
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