[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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