[PATCH v2 02/21] armv7m: cache: add mmu_set_region_dcache_behaviour() stub for compatibility

[Lukasz Majewski]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 17:50:03 +0100
Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti at benettiengineering.com> wrote:

> On 1/28/20 9:10 AM, Lukasz Majewski wrote:
> > Hi Giulio,
> >   
> >> Since some driver  
> > 
> > I would prefer more verbose commit message. Please share which
> > driver requires this change.  
> 
> Yes, you were right, this is a quite dumb commit log.
> 
> Now commit log can't be changed, anyway this is the list of drivers
> that use it:
> drivers/video/mvebu_lcd.c
> drivers/video/mxsfb.c (that I'm going to use soon)
> drivers/video/bcm2835.c
> drivers/video/fsl_dcu_fb.c
> drivers/video/tegra.c
> drivers/video/imx/mxc_ipuv3_fb.c
> 
> drivers/net/zynq_gem.c
> drivers/net/mvneta.c
> drivers/net/mvpp2.c
> 
> And this function prototype is provided by
> arch/arm/include/asm/system.h
> 
> Everything came out when I've tried to build mxsfb.c.
> 
> But after this e-mail I've dug deeper and see that sometimes 
> mmu_set_region_dcache_behaviour() call is guarded by 
> CONFIG_IS_ENABLED(SYS_DCACHE_OFF) and sometimes i.e. 
> arch/arm/cpu/armv8/cache_v8.c that function is defined both
> implemented and empty according to CONFIG_IS_ENABLED(SYS_DCACHE_OFF).
> So one chance is to put a check to guard against
> CONFIG_IS_ENABLED(SYS_DCACHE_OFF) on every call(the files listed
> above), otherwise, where is guarded we should remove the guard and
> adding missing mmu_set_region_dcache_behaviour() empty
> implementation. ~5 files to touch, but if you say it's worth, I can
> do patches for that, and I don't see any drawbacks expect having a
> standard way on dealing with the cache function.
> 
> What about that?

IMHO, it would be best to to this change when you decide to add support
for DCACHE/ICACHE on this SoC.

> 
> Kind regards




Best regards,

Lukasz Majewski

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