[U-Boot] [PATCH] arm: cache: Implement cache range check for v7

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Tue Aug 4 12:12:05 CEST 2015


On Monday, July 27, 2015 at 10:34:17 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Add code to aid tracking down cache alignment issues.
> In case DEBUG is defined in the cache.c, this code will
> check alignment of each attempt to flush/invalidate data
> cache and print a warning if the alignment is incorrect.
> If DEBUG is not defined, this code is optimized out.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen at opensource.altera.com>
> Cc: Albert Aribaud <albert.u.boot at aribaud.net>
> Cc: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>

Bump ? Is this patch useful or shall it be dropped ?

>  arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cache_v7.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cache_v7.c b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cache_v7.c
> index e8ee875..84431bb 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cache_v7.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cache_v7.c
> @@ -16,6 +16,23 @@
>  #define ARMV7_DCACHE_CLEAN_INVAL_RANGE	4
> 
>  #ifndef CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF
> +static int check_cache_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long stop)
> +{
> +	int ok = 1;
> +
> +	if (start & (CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE - 1))
> +		ok = 0;
> +
> +	if (stop & (CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE - 1))
> +		ok = 0;
> +
> +	if (!ok)
> +		debug("CACHE: Misaligned operation at range [%08lx, %08lx]\n",
> +			start, stop);
> +
> +	return ok;
> +}
> +
>  /*
>   * Write the level and type you want to Cache Size Selection
> Register(CSSELR) * to get size details from Current Cache Size ID
> Register(CCSIDR) @@ -257,6 +274,8 @@ void flush_dcache_all(void)
>   */
>  void invalidate_dcache_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long stop)
>  {
> +	check_cache_range(start, stop);
> +
>  	v7_dcache_maint_range(start, stop, ARMV7_DCACHE_INVAL_RANGE);
> 
>  	v7_outer_cache_inval_range(start, stop);
> @@ -269,6 +288,8 @@ void invalidate_dcache_range(unsigned long start,
> unsigned long stop) */
>  void flush_dcache_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long stop)
>  {
> +	check_cache_range(start, stop);
> +
>  	v7_dcache_maint_range(start, stop, ARMV7_DCACHE_CLEAN_INVAL_RANGE);
> 
>  	v7_outer_cache_flush_range(start, stop);

Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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