[PATCH 2/3] arm64: add helper functions to read I-cache attributes

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Mon Aug 4 02:58:14 PDT 2014


On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 09:16:55AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> This adds helper functions and #defines to <asm/cachetype.h> to read the
> line size and the number of sets from the level 1 instruction cache.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/cachetype.h | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cachetype.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cachetype.h
> index 7a2e0762cb40..c0bf1fc3d6a0 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cachetype.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cachetype.h
> @@ -39,6 +39,34 @@
>  
>  extern unsigned long __icache_flags;
>  
> +#define CCSIDR_EL1_LINESIZE_MASK	0x7
> +#define CCSIDR_EL1_LINESIZE(x)		(x & CCSIDR_EL1_LINESIZE_MASK)

It's probably worth bracketing x in case these get used elsewhere.

> +#define CCSIDR_EL1_NUMSETS_SHIFT	13
> +#define CCSIDR_EL1_NUMSETS_MASK		(0x7fff << CCSIDR_EL1_NUMSETS_SHIFT)
> +#define CCSIDR_EL1_NUMSETS(x) \
> +	((x & CCSIDR_EL1_NUMSETS_MASK) >> CCSIDR_EL1_NUMSETS_SHIFT)
> +
> +static inline __attribute_const__ u32 icache_get_ccsidr(void)
> +{
> +	u32 ccsidr;
> +
> +	/* Select L1 I-cache and read its size ID register */
> +	asm("msr csselr_el1, %x1; isb; mrs %x0, ccsidr_el1"
> +	    : "=r"(ccsidr) : "r"(0x1));

Does GCC provide any guarantee about the upper bits in this case?

Can we not make both values u64 rather than forcing the use of x
registers within the asm template?

Thanks,
Mark.

> +	return ccsidr;
> +}
> +
> +static inline int icache_get_linesize(void)
> +{
> +	return 16 << CCSIDR_EL1_LINESIZE(icache_get_ccsidr());
> +}
> +
> +static inline int icache_get_numsets(void)
> +{
> +	return 1 + CCSIDR_EL1_NUMSETS(icache_get_ccsidr());
> +}
> +
>  /*
>   * Whilst the D-side always behaves as PIPT on AArch64, aliasing is
>   * permitted in the I-cache.
> -- 
> 1.8.3.2
> 
> 



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