[RFC PATCH 3/5] arm64: Provide dcache_inval_poc_nosync helper

Barry Song 21cnbao at gmail.com
Tue Oct 28 19:31:13 PDT 2025


From: Barry Song <v-songbaohua at oppo.com>

dcache_inval_poc_nosync does not wait for the data cache invalidation to
complete. Later, we defer the synchronization so we can wait for all SG
entries together.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com>
Cc: Ada Couprie Diaz <ada.coupriediaz at arm.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts at arm.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb at google.com>
Cc: Tangquan Zheng <zhengtangquan at oppo.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Cc: iommu at lists.linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua at oppo.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/cacheflush.h |  1 +
 arch/arm64/mm/cache.S               | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++--------
 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cacheflush.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cacheflush.h
index 9b6d0a62cf3d..382b4ac3734d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cacheflush.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cacheflush.h
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ extern void icache_inval_pou(unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
 extern void dcache_clean_inval_poc(unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
 extern void dcache_inval_poc(unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
 extern void dcache_clean_poc(unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
+extern void dcache_inval_poc_nosync(unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
 extern void dcache_clean_poc_nosync(unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
 extern void dcache_clean_pop(unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
 extern void dcache_clean_pou(unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/cache.S b/arch/arm64/mm/cache.S
index 4a7c7e03785d..8c1043c9b9e5 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/cache.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/cache.S
@@ -132,17 +132,7 @@ alternative_else_nop_endif
 	ret
 SYM_FUNC_END(dcache_clean_pou)
 
-/*
- *	dcache_inval_poc(start, end)
- *
- * 	Ensure that any D-cache lines for the interval [start, end)
- * 	are invalidated. Any partial lines at the ends of the interval are
- *	also cleaned to PoC to prevent data loss.
- *
- *	- start   - kernel start address of region
- *	- end     - kernel end address of region
- */
-SYM_FUNC_START(__pi_dcache_inval_poc)
+.macro _dcache_inval_poc_impl, do_sync
 	dcache_line_size x2, x3
 	sub	x3, x2, #1
 	tst	x1, x3				// end cache line aligned?
@@ -158,11 +148,42 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(__pi_dcache_inval_poc)
 3:	add	x0, x0, x2
 	cmp	x0, x1
 	b.lo	2b
+.if \do_sync
 	dsb	sy
+.endif
 	ret
+.endm
+
+/*
+ *	dcache_inval_poc(start, end)
+ *
+ * 	Ensure that any D-cache lines for the interval [start, end)
+ * 	are invalidated. Any partial lines at the ends of the interval are
+ *	also cleaned to PoC to prevent data loss.
+ *
+ *	- start   - kernel start address of region
+ *	- end     - kernel end address of region
+ */
+SYM_FUNC_START(__pi_dcache_inval_poc)
+	_dcache_inval_poc_impl 1
 SYM_FUNC_END(__pi_dcache_inval_poc)
 SYM_FUNC_ALIAS(dcache_inval_poc, __pi_dcache_inval_poc)
 
+/*
+ *	dcache_inval_poc_nosync(start, end)
+ *
+ * 	Issue the instructions of D-cache lines for the interval [start, end)
+ * 	for invalidation. Not necessarily cleaned to PoC till an explicit dsb
+ *	sy later
+ *
+ *	- start   - kernel start address of region
+ *	- end     - kernel end address of region
+ */
+SYM_FUNC_START(__pi_dcache_inval_poc_nosync)
+	_dcache_inval_poc_impl 0
+SYM_FUNC_END(__pi_dcache_inval_poc_nosync)
+SYM_FUNC_ALIAS(dcache_inval_poc_nosync, __pi_dcache_inval_poc_nosync)
+
 /*
  *	dcache_clean_poc(start, end)
  *
-- 
2.39.3 (Apple Git-146)




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