[RFC PATCH 1/5] arm64: Provide dcache_by_myline_op_nosync helper
Barry Song
21cnbao at gmail.com
Tue Oct 28 19:31:11 PDT 2025
From: Barry Song <v-songbaohua at oppo.com>
dcache_by_myline_op ensures completion of the data cache operations for a
region, while dcache_by_myline_op_nosync only issues them without waiting.
This enables deferred synchronization so completion for multiple regions
can be handled together later.
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com>
Cc: Ada Couprie Diaz <ada.coupriediaz at arm.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts at arm.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb at google.com>
Cc: Tangquan Zheng <zhengtangquan at oppo.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Cc: iommu at lists.linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua at oppo.com>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 59 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
index 23be85d93348..115196ce4800 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
@@ -366,22 +366,7 @@ alternative_else
alternative_endif
.endm
-/*
- * Macro to perform a data cache maintenance for the interval
- * [start, end) with dcache line size explicitly provided.
- *
- * op: operation passed to dc instruction
- * domain: domain used in dsb instruciton
- * start: starting virtual address of the region
- * end: end virtual address of the region
- * linesz: dcache line size
- * fixup: optional label to branch to on user fault
- * Corrupts: start, end, tmp
- */
- .macro dcache_by_myline_op op, domain, start, end, linesz, tmp, fixup
- sub \tmp, \linesz, #1
- bic \start, \start, \tmp
-.Ldcache_op\@:
+ .macro __dcache_op_line op, start
.ifc \op, cvau
__dcache_op_workaround_clean_cache \op, \start
.else
@@ -399,14 +384,54 @@ alternative_endif
.endif
.endif
.endif
- add \start, \start, \linesz
- cmp \start, \end
- b.lo .Ldcache_op\@
- dsb \domain
+ .endm
+
+/*
+ * Macro to perform a data cache maintenance for the interval
+ * [start, end) with dcache line size explicitly provided.
+ *
+ * op: operation passed to dc instruction
+ * domain: domain used in dsb instruciton
+ * start: starting virtual address of the region
+ * end: end virtual address of the region
+ * linesz: dcache line size
+ * fixup: optional label to branch to on user fault
+ * Corrupts: start, end, tmp
+ */
+ .macro dcache_by_myline_op op, domain, start, end, linesz, tmp, fixup
+ sub \tmp, \linesz, #1
+ bic \start, \start, \tmp
+.Ldcache_op\@:
+ __dcache_op_line \op, \start
+ add \start, \start, \linesz
+ cmp \start, \end
+ b.lo .Ldcache_op\@
+ dsb \domain
_cond_uaccess_extable .Ldcache_op\@, \fixup
.endm
+/*
+ * Macro to perform a data cache maintenance for the interval
+ * [start, end) with dcache line size explicitly provided.
+ * It won't wait for the completion of the dc operation.
+ *
+ * op: operation passed to dc instruction
+ * start: starting virtual address of the region
+ * end: end virtual address of the region
+ * linesz: dcache line size
+ * Corrupts: start, end, tmp
+ */
+ .macro dcache_by_myline_op_nosync op, start, end, linesz, tmp
+ sub \tmp, \linesz, #1
+ bic \start, \start, \tmp
+.Ldcache_op\@:
+ __dcache_op_line \op, \start
+ add \start, \start, \linesz
+ cmp \start, \end
+ b.lo .Ldcache_op\@
+ .endm
+
/*
* Macro to perform a data cache maintenance for the interval
* [start, end)
@@ -423,6 +448,20 @@ alternative_endif
dcache_by_myline_op \op, \domain, \start, \end, \tmp1, \tmp2, \fixup
.endm
+/*
+ * Macro to perform a data cache maintenance for the interval
+ * [start, end). It won’t wait for the dc operation to complete.
+ *
+ * op: operation passed to dc instruction
+ * start: starting virtual address of the region
+ * end: end virtual address of the region
+ * Corrupts: start, end, tmp1, tmp2
+ */
+ .macro dcache_by_line_op_nosync op, start, end, tmp1, tmp2
+ dcache_line_size \tmp1, \tmp2
+ dcache_by_myline_op_nosync \op, \start, \end, \tmp1, \tmp2
+ .endm
+
/*
* Macro to perform an instruction cache maintenance for the interval
* [start, end)
--
2.39.3 (Apple Git-146)
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