[U-Boot] [PATCH 10/17] arm: Add control over cachability of memory regions

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Sun Mar 4 07:20:54 CET 2012


Hi Albert,

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Albert ARIBAUD
<albert.u.boot at aribaud.net> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> Le 15/01/2012 01:47, Simon Glass a écrit :
>
>> Add support for adjusting the cachability of an L1 section by updating
>> the MMU. The mmu_set_region_dcache() function allows drivers to make
>> these changes after the MMU is set up.
>>
>> It is implemented only for ARMv7 at present.
>>
>> This is needed for LCD support, where we want to make the LCD frame buffer
>> write-through (or off) rather than write-back.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass<sjg at chromium.org>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cache_v7.c |   11 +++++++
>>  arch/arm/include/asm/system.h |   30 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>  arch/arm/lib/cache-cp15.c     |   62
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>>  3 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cache_v7.c b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cache_v7.c
>> index 1b4e808..5f6d039 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cache_v7.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cache_v7.c
>> @@ -297,6 +297,12 @@ void arm_init_before_mmu(void)
>>        v7_inval_tlb();
>>  }
>>
>> +void mmu_page_table_flush(unsigned long start, unsigned long stop)
>> +{
>> +       flush_dcache_range(start, stop);
>> +       v7_inval_tlb();
>
>
> If that means "invalidate", then spell it out.

Are you asking for a patch to rename v7_inval_tlb()? That is an
existing function - I agree it is a bit cryptic.

>
>> +}
>> +
>>  /*
>>   * Flush range from all levels of d-cache/unified-cache used:
>>   * Affects the range [start, start + size - 1]
>> @@ -329,6 +335,11 @@ void arm_init_before_mmu(void)
>>  void  flush_cache(unsigned long start, unsigned long size)
>>  {
>>  }
>> +
>> +void mmu_page_table_flush(unsigned long start, unsigned long stop)
>> +{
>> +}
>> +
>>  #endif /* #ifndef CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF */
>>
>>  #ifndef CONFIG_SYS_ICACHE_OFF
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/system.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/system.h
>> index 2b28a26..f52a4fc 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/system.h
>> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/system.h
>> @@ -75,6 +75,36 @@ static inline void set_cr(unsigned int val)
>>        isb();
>>  }
>>
>> +/* options available for data cache on each page */
>> +enum dcache_option {
>> +       DCACHE_OFF,
>> +       DCACHE_WRITETHROUGH,
>> +       DCACHE_WRITEBACK,
>> +};
>> +
>> +/* Size of an MMU section */
>> +enum {
>> +       MMU_SECTION_SHIFT       = 20,
>> +       MMU_SECTION_SIZE        = 1<<  MMU_SECTION_SHIFT,
>> +};
>> +
>> +/**
>> + * Change the cache settings for a region.
>> + *
>> + * \param start                start address of memory region to change
>> + * \param size         size of memory region to change
>> + * \param option       dcache option to select
>> + */
>> +void mmu_set_region_dcache(u32 start, int size, enum dcache_option
>> option);
>> +
>> +/**
>> + * Register an update to the page tables, and flush the TLB
>> + *
>> + * \param start                start address of update in page table
>> + * \param stop         stop address of update in page table
>> + */
>> +void mmu_page_table_flush(unsigned long start, unsigned long stop);
>> +
>>  #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
>>
>>  #define arch_align_stack(x) (x)
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/cache-cp15.c b/arch/arm/lib/cache-cp15.c
>> index e6c3eae..facb1a7 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/lib/cache-cp15.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm/lib/cache-cp15.c
>> @@ -26,12 +26,6 @@
>>
>>  #if !(defined(CONFIG_SYS_ICACHE_OFF)&&  defined(CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF))
>>
>>
>> -#if defined(CONFIG_SYS_ARM_CACHE_WRITETHROUGH)
>> -#define CACHE_SETUP    0x1a
>> -#else
>> -#define CACHE_SETUP    0x1e
>> -#endif
>> -
>>  DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR;
>>
>>  void __arm_init_before_mmu(void)
>> @@ -50,9 +44,52 @@ static void cp_delay (void)
>>        asm volatile("" : : : "memory");
>>  }
>>
>> -static inline void dram_bank_mmu_setup(int bank)
>> +void set_section_dcache(int section, enum dcache_option option)
>>  {
>> +       u32 value = section<<  MMU_SECTION_SHIFT | (3<<  10);
>>        u32 *page_table = (u32 *)gd->tlb_addr;
>> +
>> +       switch (option) {
>> +       case DCACHE_WRITETHROUGH:
>> +               value |= 0x1a;
>> +               break;
>> +
>> +       case DCACHE_WRITEBACK:
>> +               value |= 0x1e;
>> +               break;
>> +
>> +       case DCACHE_OFF:
>> +               value |= 0x12;
>> +               break;
>> +       }
>> +
>> +       page_table[section] = value;
>> +}
>> +
>> +void __mmu_page_table_flush(unsigned long start, unsigned long stop)
>> +{
>> +       debug("%s: Warning: not implemented\n", __func__);
>> +}
>> +
>> +void mmu_page_table_flush(unsigned long start, unsigned long stop)
>> +       __attribute__((weak, alias("__mmu_page_table_flush")));
>> +
>> +void mmu_set_region_dcache(u32 start, int size, enum dcache_option
>> option)
>> +{
>> +       u32 *page_table = (u32 *)gd->tlb_addr;
>> +       u32 upto, end;
>> +
>> +       end = ALIGN(start + size, MMU_SECTION_SIZE)>>  MMU_SECTION_SHIFT;
>> +       start = start>>  MMU_SECTION_SHIFT;
>> +       debug("mmu_set_region_dcache start=%x, size=%x, option=%d\n",
>> +             start, size, option);
>> +       for (upto = start; upto<  end; upto++)
>> +               set_section_dcache(upto, option);
>> +       mmu_page_table_flush((u32)&page_table[start],
>> (u32)&page_table[end]);
>> +}
>> +
>> +static inline void dram_bank_mmu_setup(int bank)
>> +{
>>        bd_t *bd = gd->bd;
>>        int     i;
>>
>> @@ -60,21 +97,24 @@ static inline void dram_bank_mmu_setup(int bank)
>>        for (i = bd->bi_dram[bank].start>>  20;
>>             i<  (bd->bi_dram[bank].start + bd->bi_dram[bank].size)>>  20;
>>             i++) {
>> -               page_table[i] = i<<  20 | (3<<  10) | CACHE_SETUP;
>> +#if defined(CONFIG_SYS_ARM_CACHE_WRITETHROUGH)
>> +               set_section_dcache(i, DCACHE_WRITETHROUGH);
>> +#else
>> +               set_section_dcache(i, DCACHE_WRITEBACK);
>> +#endif
>>        }
>>  }
>>
>>  /* to activate the MMU we need to set up virtual memory: use 1M areas */
>>  static inline void mmu_setup(void)
>>  {
>> -       u32 *page_table = (u32 *)gd->tlb_addr;
>>        int i;
>>        u32 reg;
>>
>>        arm_init_before_mmu();
>>        /* Set up an identity-mapping for all 4GB, rw for everyone */
>>        for (i = 0; i<  4096; i++)
>> -               page_table[i] = i<<  20 | (3<<  10) | 0x12;
>
>
> Maybe give names to some of the magic numbers here (and in other places
> where they appear).

OK - this line is actually being removed but I will add constants for
the values in set_section_dcache().

>
>
>> +               set_section_dcache(i, DCACHE_OFF);
>>
>>        for (i = 0; i<  CONFIG_NR_DRAM_BANKS; i++) {
>>                dram_bank_mmu_setup(i);
>> @@ -82,7 +122,7 @@ static inline void mmu_setup(void)
>>
>>        /* Copy the page table address to cp15 */
>>        asm volatile("mcr p15, 0, %0, c2, c0, 0"
>> -                    : : "r" (page_table) : "memory");
>> +                    : : "r" (gd->tlb_addr) : "memory");
>>        /* Set the access control to all-supervisor */
>>        asm volatile("mcr p15, 0, %0, c3, c0, 0"
>>                     : : "r" (~0));
>
>
> Amicalement,
> --
> Albert.

Regards,
Simon


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