[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 0/9] armv7: cache maintenance operations

Aneesh V aneesh at ti.com
Fri Jun 17 11:30:45 CEST 2011


With D-cache and MMU enabled for ARM in u-boot it becomes imperative to
support a minimal set of cache maintenance operations and necessary
initializations before enabling MMU.

This series of patches attempt to do the following for armv7:
* Necessary initialization sequence before enabling MMU that includes
  invalidation of TLB, data caches, branch predictor array etc.
* Framework for supporting SOC specific outer caches in a generic manner
  (using a structure of function pointers - inspired by the Linux
  implementation)
* Generic armv7 cache maintenance operations for caches known to the CPU
* Support for ARM PL310 L2 cache controller used in OMAP4
* Cleanup of the cleanup_before_linux() function
* Adapting all armv7 SOCs to use the new framework and removing
  duplicated code

Testing:
* Extensive testing on OMAP4430SDP and OMAP3430SDP by creating coherency
  issues and solving them using the maintenance routines
	- Eg: memfill a region of memory with a known pattern
	- Invalidate the region
	- Read back and compare the region with the original pattern
	- If match fails it means that invalidate is successful
	- Now add a flush call just before the invalidate
	- If match succeeds it means that flush was successful
	- Outer caches were tested with experiments involving making the
	  function pointers NULL
* Kernel booting on OMAP4430SDP and OMAP3430SDP
Note: v2 has been tested only on OMAP4430SDP

V2:
* Pointer based callback mechanism for outer cache operations
  changed to a weakly linked functions.
* Change -march=armv7-a back to armv5
* Moved utility macros out of armv7.h
* Added documentation for new CONFIG options.
* Changed implementation of log2n to not use CLZ instruction as armv4
  doesn't support this instruction and newly added Tegra2 uses
  -march=armv4
* Blank line after local variable declarations - fixed globally
* Explicitly added an empty flush_cache() under
  #ifdef CONFIG_SYS_NO_DCACHE
* Removed the print inside the weakly linked stub function -
  __arm_init_before_mmu
* Fixed signature of flush_cache in cache.c
* More descriptive commit message for the PL310 support patch
* C struct for PL310 register accesses
* Fixed white space issues

V3:
* Rebased to latest HEAD of master
* Added comments on changes done in V2 in individual patch headers. This
  was missing in V2

V4:
* Removed bit field manipulation macros
* Renamed CONFIG_SYS_NO_*CACHE flags to CONFIG_SYS_*CACHE_OFF globally

Aneesh V (9):
  arm: make default implementation of cache_flush() weakly linked
  armv7: cache maintenance operations for armv7
  armv7: rename cache related CONFIG flags
  armv7: integrate cache maintenance support
  arm: minor fixes for cache and mmu handling
  armv7: add PL310 support to u-boot
  armv7: adapt omap4 to the new cache maintenance framework
  armv7: adapt omap3 to the new cache maintenance framework
  armv7: adapt s5pc1xx to the new cache maintenance framework

 README                                             |   11 +
 arch/arm/cpu/arm1136/start.S                       |    4 +-
 arch/arm/cpu/armv7/Makefile                        |    2 +-
 arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cache_v7.c                      |  394 ++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cpu.c                           |   50 +--
 arch/arm/cpu/armv7/omap3/Makefile                  |    1 -
 arch/arm/cpu/armv7/omap3/board.c                   |  136 ++++++-
 arch/arm/cpu/armv7/omap3/cache.S                   |  263 -------------
 arch/arm/cpu/armv7/omap3/lowlevel_init.S           |   32 ++
 arch/arm/cpu/armv7/omap4/board.c                   |   12 +
 arch/arm/cpu/armv7/omap4/lowlevel_init.S           |    9 +
 arch/arm/cpu/armv7/s5pc1xx/cache.S                 |   88 +----
 arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S                         |   18 +-
 arch/arm/include/asm/arch-omap3/omap3.h            |   20 +
 arch/arm/include/asm/arch-omap3/sys_proto.h        |   10 +-
 arch/arm/include/asm/arch-omap4/sys_proto.h        |    2 +-
 arch/arm/include/asm/arch-s5pc1xx/sys_proto.h      |    3 -
 arch/arm/include/asm/armv7.h                       |   67 ++++
 arch/arm/include/asm/global_data.h                 |    2 +-
 arch/arm/include/asm/pl310.h                       |   73 ++++
 .../omap4/lowlevel_init.S => include/asm/utils.h}  |   51 ++-
 arch/arm/lib/Makefile                              |    3 +-
 arch/arm/lib/board.c                               |    8 +-
 arch/arm/lib/cache-cp15.c                          |   22 +-
 arch/arm/lib/cache-pl310.c                         |  115 ++++++
 arch/arm/lib/cache.c                               |   20 +-
 board/armltd/integrator/split_by_variant.sh        |    8 +-
 common/cmd_bdinfo.c                                |    2 +-
 include/common.h                                   |    5 +-
 include/configs/B2.h                               |    3 +-
 include/configs/assabet.h                          |    2 +-
 include/configs/ca9x4_ct_vxp.h                     |    2 +-
 include/configs/cerf250.h                          |    2 +-
 include/configs/cradle.h                           |    2 +-
 include/configs/csb226.h                           |    2 +-
 include/configs/dnp1110.h                          |    2 +-
 include/configs/efikamx.h                          |    2 +-
 include/configs/evb4510.h                          |    3 +-
 include/configs/gcplus.h                           |    2 +-
 include/configs/innokom.h                          |    2 +-
 include/configs/jornada.h                          |    2 +-
 include/configs/lart.h                             |    2 +-
 include/configs/lubbock.h                          |    2 +-
 include/configs/mx51evk.h                          |    2 +-
 include/configs/mx53evk.h                          |    2 +-
 include/configs/omap4_panda.h                      |    8 +-
 include/configs/omap4_sdp4430.h                    |    8 +-
 include/configs/pleb2.h                            |    2 +-
 include/configs/pxa255_idp.h                       |    2 +-
 include/configs/s5pc210_universal.h                |    2 +-
 include/configs/shannon.h                          |    2 +-
 include/configs/tegra2-common.h                    |    2 +-
 include/configs/trizepsiv.h                        |    2 +-
 include/configs/vision2.h                          |    2 +-
 include/configs/xaeniax.h                          |    2 +-
 include/configs/xm250.h                            |    2 +-
 include/configs/zylonite.h                         |    2 +-
 57 files changed, 1022 insertions(+), 479 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cache_v7.c
 delete mode 100644 arch/arm/cpu/armv7/omap3/cache.S
 create mode 100644 arch/arm/include/asm/armv7.h
 create mode 100644 arch/arm/include/asm/pl310.h
 copy arch/arm/{cpu/armv7/omap4/lowlevel_init.S => include/asm/utils.h} (66%)
 create mode 100644 arch/arm/lib/cache-pl310.c



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