There's no point having the hardware support background operations
if we issue a cache operation, and then wait for it to complete
before calculating the address of the next operation. We gain no
advantage in the cache controller stalling the bus until completion.
What we should be doing is using the 'wait' time productively by
calculating the address of the next operation, and only then waiting
for the previous operation to complete. This means that cache
operations can occur in parallel with the CPU calculating the next
address.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Taking the spinlock for every iteration is very expensive; instead,
batch iterations up into 4K blocks, releasing and reacquiring the
spinlock between each block.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
The l2x0_inv_range() function doesn't handle unaligned addresses
correctly. It's necessary to clean the cache lines that are at the
start and end of the invalidate range, if the addresses are not aligned,
to prevent corruption of other data sharing the same cache line.
Signed-off-by: Rui Sousa <rui.p.m.sousa@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The background operations of the L2x0 cache controllers are aborted if
another operation is issued on the same or different core. This patch
protects the maintenance operation issuing/polling with a spinlock.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This patch adds the support for the L210/L220 (outer) cache
controller. The cache range operations are done by index/way since L2
cache controller only accepts physical addresses.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
