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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 0/7] Enable L2 cache support on Exynos4210/4x12 SoCs
On 17.07.2014 18:38, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> This series intends to add support for L2 cache on Exynos4 SoCs on boards
> running under secure firmware, which requires certain initialization steps
> to be done with help of firmware, as selected registers are writable only
> from secure mode.
>
> First four patches extend existing support for secure write in L2C driver
> to account for design of secure firmware running on Exynos. Namely:
> 1) direct read access to certain registers is needed on Exynos, because
> secure firmware calls set several registers at once,
> 2) not all boards are running secure firmware, so .write_sec callback
> needs to be installed in Exynos firmware ops initialization code,
> 3) write access to {DATA,TAG}_LATENCY_CTRL registers fron non-secure world
> is not allowed and so must use l2c_write_sec as well,
> 4) on certain boards, default value of prefetch register is incorrect
> and must be overridden at L2C initialization.
> For boards running with firmware that provides access to individual
> L2C registers this series should introduce no functional changes. However
> since the driver is widely used on other platforms I'd like to kindly ask
> any interested people for testing.
>
> Further two patches add impelmentation of .write_sec for Exynos secure
> firmware and necessary DT nodes to enable L2 cache.
>
> Tested on Exynos4210-based Universal C210 and Trats (both without secure
> firmware) and Exynos4412-based TRATS2 and ODROID-U3 boards (both with secure
> firmware).
>
> Depends on:
> - [PATCH] ARM: make it easier to check the CPU part number correctly
> (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/335126
> already in linux-next)
> - [PATCH v2 0/2] Firmware-assisted suspend/resume of Exynos SoCs
> (https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/17/431)
>
> Changes since v2:
> (https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/25/416)
> - refactored L2C driver to use commit-like interface and make it no longer
> depend on availability of writes to individual registers,
> - moved L2C resume to assembly code, because doing it later makes some
> systems unstable - this is also needed for deeper cpuidle modes,
> - dropped unnecessary patch hacking around the .write_sec interface,
> - dropped patch making the driver use l2c_write_sec() for LATENCY_CTRL
> registers as Exynos is no longer affected and I'm not aware of any
> reports that this is also needed on other platforms (can be applied
> separately if it turns out to be so),
> - rebased onto next-20140717 tag of linux-next tree.
>
> Changes since v1:
> (https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-omap@vger.kernel.org/msg106323.html)
> - rebased onto for-next branch of linux-samsung tree,
> - changed argument order of outer_cache.write_sec() callback to match
> l2c_write_sec() function in cache-l2x0.c,
> - added support of overriding of prefetch settings to work around incorrect
> default settings on certain Exynos4x12-based boards,
> - added call to firmware to invalidate whole L2 cache before setting enable
> bit in L2C control register (required by Exynos secure firmware).
>
> Tomasz Figa (7):
> ARM: l2c: Refactor the driver to use commit-like interface
> ARM: l2c: Add interface to ask hypervisor to configure L2C
> ARM: l2c: Get outer cache .write_sec callback from mach_desc only if
> not NULL
> ARM: l2c: Add support for overriding prefetch settings
> ARM: EXYNOS: Add .write_sec outer cache callback for L2C-310
> ARM: EXYNOS: Add support for non-secure L2X0 resume
> ARM: dts: exynos4: Add nodes for L2 cache controller
>
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2cc.txt | 10 +
> arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos4210.dtsi | 9 +
> arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos4x12.dtsi | 14 ++
> arch/arm/include/asm/outercache.h | 3 +
> arch/arm/kernel/irq.c | 3 +-
> arch/arm/mach-exynos/common.h | 1 +
> arch/arm/mach-exynos/firmware.c | 40 ++++
> arch/arm/mach-exynos/sleep.S | 41 +++++
> arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c | 245 ++++++++++++++++---------
> 9 files changed, 274 insertions(+), 92 deletions(-)
>

Any comments for this series?

Best regards,
Tomasz


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