[U-Boot] [PATCH v4] arm: cache: always flush cache line size for page table

Stefan Agner stefan at agner.ch
Mon Aug 8 09:43:03 CEST 2016


On 2016-08-07 23:10, Lokesh Vutla wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sunday 07 August 2016 11:13 PM, Stefan Agner wrote:
>> From: Stefan Agner <stefan.agner at toradex.com>
>>
>> The page table is maintained by the CPU, hence it is safe to always
>> align cache flush to a whole cache line size. This allows to use
>> mmu_page_table_flush for a single page table, e.g. when configure
>> only small regions through mmu_set_region_dcache_behaviour.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan.agner at toradex.com>
>> Tested-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at nxp.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>> ---
> 
> I get the following warning when CONFIG_PHYS_64BIT is enabled on arm
> platforms(dra7xx_evm_defconfig):

Hm, do I see things right, this is otherwise a 32-bit architecture? Does
that work without LPAE? What is the page table size in this case?

> 
> arch/arm/lib/cache-cp15.c: In function 'mmu_set_region_dcache_behaviour':
> arch/arm/lib/cache-cp15.c:80:12: warning: cast from pointer to integer
> of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast]
>   startpt = (phys_addr_t)&page_table[start];
>             ^

Hm, maybe we should keep using unsigned long then inside this function.
Added Thierry to CC since he introduced phys_addr_t to the function
signature.

--
Stefan

> arch/arm/lib/cache-cp15.c:82:11: warning: cast from pointer to integer
> of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast]
>   stoppt = (phys_addr_t)&page_table[end];
>            ^
> arch/arm/lib/cache-cp15.c: In function 'mmu_set_region_dcache_behaviour':
> arch/arm/lib/cache-cp15.c:80:12: warning: cast from pointer to integer
> of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast]
>   startpt = (phys_addr_t)&page_table[start];
>             ^
> arch/arm/lib/cache-cp15.c:82:11: warning: cast from pointer to integer
> of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast]
>   stoppt = (phys_addr_t)&page_table[end];
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> Lokesh
> 
>>
>> Changes in v4:
>> - Fixed spelling misstake for real
>>
>> Changes in v3:
>> - Fixed spelling misstake
>>
>> Changes in v2:
>> - Move cache line alignment from mmu_page_table_flush to
>>   mmu_set_region_dcache_behaviour
>>
>>  arch/arm/lib/cache-cp15.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
>>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/cache-cp15.c b/arch/arm/lib/cache-cp15.c
>> index 1121dc3..488094e 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/lib/cache-cp15.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm/lib/cache-cp15.c
>> @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ void mmu_set_region_dcache_behaviour(phys_addr_t start, size_t size,
>>  				     enum dcache_option option)
>>  {
>>  	u32 *page_table = (u32 *)gd->arch.tlb_addr;
>> +	phys_addr_t startpt, stoppt;
>>  	unsigned long upto, end;
>>
>>  	end = ALIGN(start + size, MMU_SECTION_SIZE) >> MMU_SECTION_SHIFT;
>> @@ -70,7 +71,17 @@ void mmu_set_region_dcache_behaviour(phys_addr_t start, size_t 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]);
>> +
>> +	/*
>> +	 * Make sure range is cache line aligned
>> +	 * Only CPU maintains page tables, hence it is safe to always
>> +	 * flush complete cache lines...
>> +	 */
>> +	startpt = (phys_addr_t)&page_table[start];
>> +	startpt &= ~(CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE - 1);
>> +	stoppt = (phys_addr_t)&page_table[end];
>> +	stoppt = ALIGN(stoppt, CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE);
>> +	mmu_page_table_flush(startpt, stoppt);
>>  }
>>
>>  __weak void dram_bank_mmu_setup(int bank)
>>


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