[PATCH] arm64: dts: rockchip: Add cache information to the SoC dtsi for RK356x

Anand Moon linux.amoon at gmail.com
Mon Mar 4 01:21:49 PST 2024


Hi Dragan,

On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 at 00:35, Dragan Simic <dsimic at manjaro.org> wrote:
>
> Add missing cache information to the Rockchip RK356x SoC dtsi, to allow
> the userspace, which includes /proc/cpuinfo and lscpu(1), to present proper
> RK3566 and RK3568 cache information.  Also, it gets rid of the following
> error in the kernel log:
>
>   cacheinfo: Unable to detect cache hierarchy for CPU 0
>
> The cache parameters for the RK356x dtsi were obtained and partially derived
> by hand from the cache size and layout specifications found in the following
> datasheets and technical reference manuals:
>
>   - Rockchip RK3566 datasheet, version 1.1
>   - Rockchip RK3568 datasheet, version 1.3
>   - ARM Cortex-A55 revision r1p0 TRM, version 0100-00
>   - ARM DynamIQ Shared Unit revision r4p0 TRM, version 0400-02
>
> For future reference, here's a rather detailed summary of the documentation,
> which applies to both Rockchip RK3566 and RK3568 SoCs:
>
>   - All caches employ the 64-byte cache line length
>   - Each Cortex-A55 core has 32 KB of L1 4-way, set-associative instruction
>     cache and 32 KB of L1 4-way, set-associative data cache
>   - There are no L2 caches, which are per-core and private in Cortex-A55,
>     because it belongs to the ARM DynamIQ IP core lineup
>   - The entire SoC has 512 KB of unified L3 16-way, set-associative cache,
>     which is shared among all four Cortex-A55 CPU cores
>   - Cortex-A55 cores can be configured without private per-core L2 caches,
>     in which case the shared L3 cache appears to them as an L2 cache;  this
>     is the case for the RK356x SoCs, so let's use "cache-level = <2>" to
>     prevent the "huh, no L2 caches, but an L3 cache?" confusion among the
>     users viewing the data presented to the userspace;  another option could
>     be to have additional 0 KB L2 caches defined, which may be technically
>     correct, but would probably be even more confusing
>
> Helped-by: Anand Moon <linux.amoon at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic at manjaro.org>
> ---
Thanks, Please add my
Reviewed-by: Anand Moon <linux.amoon at gmail.com>


>
> Notes:
>     As already agreed upon with Anand Moon, this patch replaces the submission
>     of a similar, albeit a bit incorrect patch [1] that appeared a bit earlier
>     on the linux-rockchip mailing list.
>
>     [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rockchip/20240226182310.4032-1-linux.amoon@gmail.com/T/#u
>
>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk356x.dtsi | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 41 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk356x.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk356x.dtsi
> index c19c0f1b3778..6dfb2d47d3d0 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk356x.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk356x.dtsi
> @@ -57,36 +57,77 @@ cpu0: cpu at 0 {
>                         #cooling-cells = <2>;
>                         enable-method = "psci";
>                         operating-points-v2 = <&cpu0_opp_table>;
> +                       i-cache-size = <0x8000>;
> +                       i-cache-line-size = <64>;
> +                       i-cache-sets = <128>;
> +                       d-cache-size = <0x8000>;
> +                       d-cache-line-size = <64>;
> +                       d-cache-sets = <128>;
> +                       next-level-cache = <&l3_cache>;
>                 };
>
>                 cpu1: cpu at 100 {
>                         device_type = "cpu";
>                         compatible = "arm,cortex-a55";
>                         reg = <0x0 0x100>;
>                         #cooling-cells = <2>;
>                         enable-method = "psci";
>                         operating-points-v2 = <&cpu0_opp_table>;
> +                       i-cache-size = <0x8000>;
> +                       i-cache-line-size = <64>;
> +                       i-cache-sets = <128>;
> +                       d-cache-size = <0x8000>;
> +                       d-cache-line-size = <64>;
> +                       d-cache-sets = <128>;
> +                       next-level-cache = <&l3_cache>;
>                 };
>
>                 cpu2: cpu at 200 {
>                         device_type = "cpu";
>                         compatible = "arm,cortex-a55";
>                         reg = <0x0 0x200>;
>                         #cooling-cells = <2>;
>                         enable-method = "psci";
>                         operating-points-v2 = <&cpu0_opp_table>;
> +                       i-cache-size = <0x8000>;
> +                       i-cache-line-size = <64>;
> +                       i-cache-sets = <128>;
> +                       d-cache-size = <0x8000>;
> +                       d-cache-line-size = <64>;
> +                       d-cache-sets = <128>;
> +                       next-level-cache = <&l3_cache>;
>                 };
>
>                 cpu3: cpu at 300 {
>                         device_type = "cpu";
>                         compatible = "arm,cortex-a55";
>                         reg = <0x0 0x300>;
>                         #cooling-cells = <2>;
>                         enable-method = "psci";
>                         operating-points-v2 = <&cpu0_opp_table>;
> +                       i-cache-size = <0x8000>;
> +                       i-cache-line-size = <64>;
> +                       i-cache-sets = <128>;
> +                       d-cache-size = <0x8000>;
> +                       d-cache-line-size = <64>;
> +                       d-cache-sets = <128>;
> +                       next-level-cache = <&l3_cache>;
>                 };
>         };
>
> +       /*
> +        * There are no private per-core L2 caches, but only the
> +        * L3 cache that appears to the CPU cores as L2 caches
> +        */
> +       l3_cache: l3-cache {
> +               compatible = "cache";
> +               cache-level = <2>;
> +               cache-unified;
> +               cache-size = <0x80000>;
> +               cache-line-size = <64>;
> +               cache-sets = <512>;
> +       };
> +
>         cpu0_opp_table: opp-table-0 {
>                 compatible = "operating-points-v2";
>                 opp-shared;



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