[PATCH v4 1/3] ARM: l2c: allow CA9 optimizations to be disabled

Chris Brandt chris.brandt at renesas.com
Thu Feb 16 08:17:40 PST 2017


If a PL310 is added to a system, but the sideband signals are not
connected, some Cortex A9 optimizations cannot be used. In particular,
enabling Full Line of Zeros in the CA9 without sidebands connected will
crash the system since the CA9 will expect the L2C to perform operations,
yet the L2C never gets the commands. Early BRESP also does not work
without sideband signals.

Signed-off-by: Chris Brandt <chris.brandt at renesas.com>
---
v3:
* changed l2x0_bresp_dis to l2x0_bresp_disable
* changed l2x0_flz_dis to l2x0_flz_disable
v2:
* split "arm,pl310-no-sideband" into "arm,early-bresp-disable" and
  "arm,full-line-zero-disable"
---
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2c2x0.txt |  3 +++
 arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c                         | 13 +++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2c2x0.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2c2x0.txt
index 917199f..d9650c1 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2c2x0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2c2x0.txt
@@ -90,6 +90,9 @@ Optional properties:
 - arm,standby-mode: L2 standby mode enable. Value <0> (forcibly disable),
   <1> (forcibly enable), property absent (OS specific behavior,
   preferably retain firmware settings)
+- arm,early-bresp-disable : Disable the CA9 optimization Early BRESP (PL310)
+- arm,full-line-zero-disable : Disable the CA9 optimization Full line of zero
+  write (PL310)
 
 Example:
 
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c b/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c
index 2290be3..808efbb 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ static unsigned long sync_reg_offset = L2X0_CACHE_SYNC;
 
 struct l2x0_regs l2x0_saved_regs;
 
+static bool l2x0_bresp_disable;
+static bool l2x0_flz_disable;
+
 /*
  * Common code for all cache controllers.
  */
@@ -620,7 +623,7 @@ static void __init l2c310_enable(void __iomem *base, unsigned num_lock)
 	u32 aux = l2x0_saved_regs.aux_ctrl;
 
 	if (rev >= L310_CACHE_ID_RTL_R2P0) {
-		if (cortex_a9) {
+		if (cortex_a9 && !l2x0_bresp_disable) {
 			aux |= L310_AUX_CTRL_EARLY_BRESP;
 			pr_info("L2C-310 enabling early BRESP for Cortex-A9\n");
 		} else if (aux & L310_AUX_CTRL_EARLY_BRESP) {
@@ -629,7 +632,7 @@ static void __init l2c310_enable(void __iomem *base, unsigned num_lock)
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (cortex_a9) {
+	if (cortex_a9 && !l2x0_flz_disable) {
 		u32 aux_cur = readl_relaxed(base + L2X0_AUX_CTRL);
 		u32 acr = get_auxcr();
 
@@ -1200,6 +1203,12 @@ static void __init l2c310_of_parse(const struct device_node *np,
 		*aux_mask &= ~L2C_AUX_CTRL_PARITY_ENABLE;
 	}
 
+	if (of_property_read_bool(np, "arm,early-bresp-disable"))
+		l2x0_bresp_disable = true;
+
+	if (of_property_read_bool(np, "arm,full-line-zero-disable"))
+		l2x0_flz_disable = true;
+
 	prefetch = l2x0_saved_regs.prefetch_ctrl;
 
 	ret = of_property_read_u32(np, "arm,double-linefill", &val);
-- 
2.10.1





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