Re: [PATCH 6/8] arm64: Introduce raw_{d,i}cache_line_size

From: Geoff Levand
Date: Thu Aug 18 2016 - 21:16:55 EST


On Thu, 2016-08-18 at 14:10 +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> On systems with mismatched i/d cache min line sizes, we need to use
> the smallest size possible across all CPUs. This will be done by fetching
> the system wide safe value from CPU feature infrastructure.
> However the some special users(e.g kexec, hibernate) would need the line
> size on the CPU (rather than the system wide), when the system wide
> feature may not be accessible. Provide another helper which will fetch
> cache line size on the current CPU.
>
> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> Âarch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.hÂÂ| 24 ++++++++++++++++++++----
> Âarch/arm64/kernel/hibernate-asm.SÂÂÂ|ÂÂ2 +-
> Âarch/arm64/kernel/relocate_kernel.S |ÂÂ2 +-
> Â3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
> index d5025c6..a4bb3f5 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
> @@ -218,9 +218,10 @@ lr .req x30 // link register
> Â .endm
> Â
> Â/*
> - * dcache_line_size - get the minimum D-cache line size from the CTR register.
> + * raw_dcache_line_size - get the minimum D-cache line size on this CPU
> + * from the CTR register.
> Â */
> - .macro dcache_line_size, reg, tmp
> + .macro raw_dcache_line_size, reg, tmp
> Â mrs \tmp, ctr_el0 // read CTR
> Â ubfm \tmp, \tmp, #16, #19 // cache line size encoding
> Â mov \reg, #4 // bytes per word
> @@ -228,9 +229,17 @@ lr .req x30 // link register
> Â .endm

...

> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/relocate_kernel.S
> @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ENTRY(arm64_relocate_new_kernel)
> Â /* Setup the list loop variables. */
> Â mov x17, x1 /* x17 = kimage_start */
> Â mov x16, x0 /* x16 = kimage_head */
> - dcache_line_size x15, x0 /* x15 = dcache line size */
> + raw_dcache_line_size x15, x0 /* x15 = dcache line size */
> Â mov x14, xzr /* x14 = entry ptr */
> Â mov x13, xzr /* x13 = copy dest */

Since this is just renaming dcache_line_size to raw_dcache_line_size,
and for kexec's relocate_kernel we need to know about the CPU we are
running on, this part of the change looks good.

Reviewed by: Geoff Levand <geoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>