[U-Boot] FW: [PATCH 18/30] riscv: invalidate the instruction cache before jumping to Linux

[Auer, Lukas]

Hi Rick,

On Wed, 2018-10-31 at 12:22 +0800, Rick Chen wrote:
> Greentime Hu <green.hu at gmail.com> 於 2018年10月31日 週三 上午11:48寫道：
> > 
> > Rick Chen <rickchen36 at gmail.com> 於 2018年10月29日 週一 上午10:25寫道：
> > > 
> > > Auer, Lukas <lukas.auer at aisec.fraunhofer.de> 於 2018年10月27日 週六
> > > 上午12:27寫道：
> > > > 
> > > > Hi Rick,
> > > > 
> > > > On Mon, 2018-10-22 at 09:39 +0800, Rick Chen wrote:
> > > > > > From: Lukas Auer [mailto:lukas.auer at aisec.fraunhofer.de]
> > > > > > Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2018 6:08 AM
> > > > > > To: u-boot at lists.denx.de
> > > > > > Cc: Bin Meng; Lukas Auer; Greentime Hu; Alexander Graf;
> > > > > > Rick Jian-
> > > > > > Zhi Chen(陳建志)
> > > > > > Subject: [PATCH 18/30] riscv: invalidate the instruction
> > > > > > cache
> > > > > > before jumping to Linux
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Signed-off-by: Lukas Auer <lukas.auer at aisec.fraunhofer.de>
> > > > > > ---
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >  arch/riscv/lib/bootm.c | 1 +
> > > > > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > diff --git a/arch/riscv/lib/bootm.c
> > > > > > b/arch/riscv/lib/bootm.c index
> > > > > > a7a9fb921b..bc1d4b2864 100644
> > > > > > --- a/arch/riscv/lib/bootm.c
> > > > > > +++ b/arch/riscv/lib/bootm.c
> > > > > > @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ int do_bootm_linux(int flag, int argc,
> > > > > > char
> > > > > > *argv[], bootm_headers_t *images)
> > > > > >                 return 1;
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >         kernel = (void (*)(ulong, void *))images->ep;
> > > > > > +       invalidate_icache_all();
> > > > > 
> > > > > Hi Likas
> > > > > 
> > > > > I wull use cleanup_before_linux() which is in cpu.c as below
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I would prefer to keep the invalidate_icache_all() in bootm.c
> > > > since it
> > > > is important in the context of the function. I do agree that
> > > > the data
> > > > and instruction caches should be disabled in
> > > > cleanup_before_linux().
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi Lukas
> > > 
> > > It is ok to keep the invalidate_icache_all() in bootm.c
> > > 
> > > Rick
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi Rick,
> > 
> > Since cleanup_before_linux() will invalidate icache, I think it
> > will
> > be better to do the whole cache operations there.
> > As we can see the document from ARM(doc/README.arm-caches) it also
> > said that
> > "
> > Cleanup Before Linux:
> > - cleanup_before_linux() should flush the D-cache, invalidate I-
> > cache, and
> >   disable MMU and caches.
> > "
> > This may reduce the redundant codes/cost.
> > What do you think?
> 
> Hi Greentime
> 
> I agree with you. We shall consider to reduce the redundant
> codes/cost.
> 
> Hi Lukas
> 
> Can you drop this patch ?
> And move it to cache_flush() ?
> 
> Thought this patch have implement it.
> [PATCH] riscv: cache: Implement i/dcache [status, enable, disable]
> 
> But I will send v2 patch to separate /riscv/lib/cache.c
> to /riscv/cpu/ax25/cache.c and /riscv/cpu/qemu/cache.c
> 
> After that you can implement it in /riscv/cpu/qemu/cache.c
> 
> Rick

Ok, I will drop this patch in the next version.

Thanks,
Lukas