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

Dragan Simic dsimic at manjaro.org
Sun Mar 3 11:04:50 PST 2024


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>
---

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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