Re: [PATCH 04/12] MIPS: Octeon: Opt-out 4k_cache feature

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> 2023年3月6日 14:28,Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@xxxxxxxxx> 写道:
> 
> From: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat,  4 Mar 2023 22:15:16 +0000
> 
>> Octeon has a different cache interface with traditional R4K one,
>> just opt-out this flag for octeon to avoid run R4K cache initialization
>> code accidentally.
>> 
>> Also remove ISA level assumption for 4k cache.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> arch/mips/include/asm/cpu-features.h | 2 +-
>> arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c         | 2 ++
>> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/cpu-features.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/cpu-features.h
>> index c0983130a44c..c613426b0bfc 100644
>> --- a/arch/mips/include/asm/cpu-features.h
>> +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/cpu-features.h
>> @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
>> #define cpu_has_3k_cache __isa_lt_and_opt(1, MIPS_CPU_3K_CACHE)
>> #endif
>> #ifndef cpu_has_4k_cache
>> -#define cpu_has_4k_cache __isa_ge_or_opt(1, MIPS_CPU_4K_CACHE)
>> +#define cpu_has_4k_cache __opt(MIPS_CPU_4K_CACHE)
> 
> This breaks compile-time optimization for this feature => hurts
> performance on non-Octeon machines. Could this be done some other way?
> E.g. could this be defined depending on
> CONFIG_SYS_HAS_CPU_OCTEON_WHATEVER? Via its own cpu-features.h or here,
> that's the second question. So that the platforms which 100% can't have
> this family of CPUs wouldn't get affected.

Thanks for the comment.

This feature is only checked once during boot and never checked at runtime so I think impact
should be negligible.

Just don’t want to have another ifdef here :-)


Thanks
- Jiaxun



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