[PATCH 3/4] dt-bindings: cache: sifive,ccache0: Add sifive,cache-ops property

Emil Renner Berthing emil.renner.berthing at canonical.com
Thu Oct 26 07:44:54 PDT 2023


Conor Dooley wrote:
> Hey Emil,
>
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 11:56:41AM -0700, Emil Renner Berthing wrote:
> > This cache controller also supports flushing cache lines by writing
> > their address to a register. This can be used for cache management on
> > SoCs with non-coherent DMAs that predate the RISC-V Zicbom extension
> > such as the StarFive JH7100 SoC.
>
> I'm not really sure why we need the flag, is it not sufficient to
> register the cache ops on a per-compatible basis? At least for the
> jh7110

-jh7110
+jh7100

> you're always going to want them, otherwise your system is going
> to be largely non-functional, right?

That's right. I'll do it that way for v2. I guess my thinking was that this
would be easier to just add to the device trees of other platforms that might
need it. Eg. mpfs pci and jh7110 graphics.

> >
> > Signed-off-by: Emil Renner Berthing <emil.renner.berthing at canonical.com>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/cache/sifive,ccache0.yaml | 5 +++++
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/cache/sifive,ccache0.yaml
> > b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/cache/sifive,ccache0.yaml
> > index 7e8cebe21584..36ae6f48ce0b 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/cache/sifive,ccache0.yaml
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/cache/sifive,ccache0.yaml
> > @@ -81,6 +81,11 @@ properties:
> >        The reference to the reserved-memory for the L2 Loosely
> > Integrated Memory region.
> >        The reserved memory node should be defined as per the bindings
> > in reserved-memory.txt.
> >
> > +  sifive,cache-ops:
> > +    type: boolean
> > +    description: |
>
> and this | is not required btw, since there's no formatting here that
> would need to be preserved.

Ah, thanks.

/Emil



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