[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/6] arm, at91: add icache support

Heiko Schocher hs at denx.de
Wed Aug 17 09:13:25 CEST 2016


add at least icache support for at91 based boards.
This speeds up NOR flash access on an at91sam9g15
based board from 15.2 seconds reading 8 MiB from
a SPI NOR flash to 5.7 seconds.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Schocher <hs at denx.de>

---
removed the dcache enable in the gurnard board. Comment
says that enabling dcache breaks Ethernet MAC ... why
is it then enabled?

@Simon: If you need dache enabled for the gurnard board,
arch/arm/mach-at91/arm926ejs/cache.c is the correct place
for doing this, I think. Please add there the common functions
needed for dcache support on at91 plattforms and undef in
the gurnard board configuration CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF.

 arch/arm/mach-at91/arm926ejs/Makefile |  1 +
 arch/arm/mach-at91/arm926ejs/cache.c  | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 board/bluewater/gurnard/gurnard.c     |  6 ------
 3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-at91/arm926ejs/cache.c

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-at91/arm926ejs/Makefile b/arch/arm/mach-at91/arm926ejs/Makefile
index ddc323f..d36e15a 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-at91/arm926ejs/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-at91/arm926ejs/Makefile
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_AT91SAM9N12)	+= at91sam9n12_devices.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_AT91SAM9X5)	+= at91sam9x5_devices.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_AT91_EFLASH)	+= eflash.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_AT91_LED)	+= led.o
+obj-y += cache.o
 obj-y += clock.o
 obj-y += cpu.o
 obj-y	+= reset.o
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-at91/arm926ejs/cache.c b/arch/arm/mach-at91/arm926ejs/cache.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8813706
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-at91/arm926ejs/cache.c
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+/*
+ * (C) Copyright 2016
+ * Heiko Schocher, DENX Software Engineering, hs at denx.de.
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
+ */
+#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <common.h>
+
+void enable_caches(void)
+{
+#ifndef CONFIG_SYS_ICACHE_OFF
+	icache_enable();
+#endif
+}
+
+#ifndef CONFIG_SYS_ICACHE_OFF
+/* Invalidate entire I-cache and branch predictor array */
+void invalidate_icache_all(void)
+{
+	unsigned long i = 0;
+
+	asm ("mcr p15, 0, %0, c7, c5, 0" : : "r" (i));
+}
+#else
+void invalidate_icache_all(void)
+{
+}
+#endif
diff --git a/board/bluewater/gurnard/gurnard.c b/board/bluewater/gurnard/gurnard.c
index 2a36d29..08b1401 100644
--- a/board/bluewater/gurnard/gurnard.c
+++ b/board/bluewater/gurnard/gurnard.c
@@ -414,12 +414,6 @@ void reset_phy(void)
 {
 }
 
-/* This breaks the Ethernet MAC at present */
-void enable_caches(void)
-{
-	dcache_enable();
-}
-
 /* SPI chip select control - only used for FPGA programming */
 #ifdef CONFIG_ATMEL_SPI
 
-- 
2.5.5



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