On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 02:16:47PM +0800, Teng Fei Fan wrote:
> This patch adds support for cacheinfo on 32bit ARMv8 platform.
> Add support for detecting cpu cache information cpu cache information
> via sysfs for 32bit armv8 platform. And export to sysfs then userspace
> can get from /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cache.
>
> Signed-off-by: Teng Fei Fan <tengfei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> arch/arm/include/asm/cachetype.h | 38 ++++++++++++
> arch/arm/kernel/Makefile | 3 +-
> arch/arm/kernel/cacheinfo.c | 128 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 168 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> create mode 100644 arch/arm/kernel/cacheinfo.c
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/cachetype.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/cachetype.h
> index 01509ae..f639c64 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/cachetype.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/cachetype.h
> @@ -1,6 +1,31 @@
> #ifndef __ASM_ARM_CACHETYPE_H
> #define __ASM_ARM_CACHETYPE_H
>
> +/*
> + * NumSets, bits[27:13] - (Number of sets in cache) - 1
> + * Associativity, bits[12:3] - (Associativity of cache) - 1
> + * LineSize, bits[2:0] - (Log2(Number of words in cache line)) - 2
> + */
> +#define CCSIDR_EL1_WRITE_THROUGH BIT(31)
> +#define CCSIDR_EL1_WRITE_BACK BIT(30)
> +#define CCSIDR_EL1_READ_ALLOCATE BIT(29)
> +#define CCSIDR_EL1_WRITE_ALLOCATE BIT(28)
> +#define CCSIDR_EL1_LINESIZE_MASK 0x7
> +#define CCSIDR_EL1_LINESIZE(x) ((x) & CCSIDR_EL1_LINESIZE_MASK)
> +#define CCSIDR_EL1_ASSOCIATIVITY_SHIFT 3
> +#define CCSIDR_EL1_ASSOCIATIVITY_MASK 0x3ff
> +#define CCSIDR_EL1_ASSOCIATIVITY(x) \
> + (((x) >> CCSIDR_EL1_ASSOCIATIVITY_SHIFT) \
> + & CCSIDR_EL1_ASSOCIATIVITY_MASK)
> +#define CCSIDR_EL1_NUMSETS_SHIFT 13
> +#define CCSIDR_EL1_NUMSETS_MASK 0x7fff
> +#define CCSIDR_EL1_NUMSETS(x) \
> + (((x) >> CCSIDR_EL1_NUMSETS_SHIFT) & CCSIDR_EL1_NUMSETS_MASK)
> +
> +#define CACHE_LINESIZE(x) (16 << CCSIDR_EL1_LINESIZE(x))
> +#define CACHE_NUMSETS(x) (CCSIDR_EL1_NUMSETS(x) + 1)
> +#define CACHE_ASSOCIATIVITY(x) (CCSIDR_EL1_ASSOCIATIVITY(x) + 1)
> +
This was dropped from arm64 via the commit
a8d4636f96ad ("arm64: cacheinfo: Remove CCSIDR-based cache information probing")
So it makes no sense to add CCSIDR based cacheinfo back. If we add this
support, it should be entirely based on DT.
--
Regards,
Sudeep
