[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 2/7] MIPS: Allow to prefetch and lock instructions into cache

Gregory CLEMENT gregory.clement at bootlin.com
Tue Oct 9 11:58:33 UTC 2018


This path add a new helper allowing to prefetch and lock instructions
into cache. This is useful very early in the boot when no RAM is
available yet.

Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement at bootlin.com>
---
 arch/mips/include/asm/cacheops.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/cacheops.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/cacheops.h
index 3161875441..98b67ccc8e 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/cacheops.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/cacheops.h
@@ -19,6 +19,25 @@ static inline void mips_cache(int op, const volatile void *addr)
 #endif
 }
 
+#define MIPS32_WHICH_ICACHE                    0x0
+#define MIPS32_FETCH_AND_LOCK                  0x7
+
+#define ICACHE_LOAD_LOCK (MIPS32_WHICH_ICACHE | (MIPS32_FETCH_AND_LOCK << 2))
+
+/* Prefetch and lock instructions into cache */
+static inline void icache_lock(void *func, size_t len)
+{
+	int i, lines = ((len - 1) / ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN) + 1;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < lines; i++) {
+		asm volatile (" cache %0, %1(%2)"
+			      : /* No Output */
+			      : "I" ICACHE_LOAD_LOCK,
+				"n" (i * ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN),
+				"r" (func)
+			      : /* No Clobbers */);
+	}
+}
 #endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
 
 /*
-- 
2.19.1



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