[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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