[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] arm: socfpga: enable data/inst prefetch and shared override in the L2

Pavel Machek pavel at denx.de
Wed Oct 14 18:32:42 CEST 2015


On Mon 2015-10-12 09:59:57, dinguyen at opensource.altera.com wrote:
> From: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen at opensource.altera.com>
> 
> Update the L2 AUX CTRL settings for the SoCFPGA.
> 
> Enabling D and I prefetch bits helps improve SDRAM performance on the
> platform.
> 
> Also, we need to enable bit 22 of the L2. By not having bit 22 set in the
> PL310 Auxiliary Control register (shared attribute override enable) has the
> side effect of transforming Normal Shared Non-cacheable reads into Cacheable
> no-allocate reads.
> 
> Coherent DMA buffers in Linux always have a Cacheable alias via the
> kernel linear mapping and the processor can speculatively load cache
> lines into the PL310 controller. With bit 22 cleared, Non-cacheable
> reads would unexpectedly hit such cache lines leading to buffer
> corruption.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen at opensource.altera.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/include/asm/pl310.h |  2 ++
>  arch/arm/mach-socfpga/misc.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pl310.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pl310.h
> index 18b90b7..7a11405 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pl310.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pl310.h
> @@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
>  #define L2X0_CTRL_EN				1
>  
>  #define PL310_SHARED_ATT_OVERRIDE_ENABLE		(1 << 22)
> +#define PL310_AUX_CTRL_DATA_PREFETCH_MASK	(1 << 28)
> +#define PL310_AUX_CTRL_INST_PREFETCH_MASK	(1 << 29)

These would be

arch/arm/include/asm/hardware/cache-l2x0.h:#define
L310_PREFETCH_CTRL_DATA_PREFETCH     BIT(28)
arch/arm/include/asm/hardware/cache-l2x0.h:#define
L310_PREFETCH_CTRL_INSTR_PREFETCH    BIT(29)

...in kernel. So maybe staying with L310_ prefix makes sense?
Otherwise it looks ok.

Best regards,
								Pavel
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