[PATCH] ARM: mm: add ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_7 for UniPhier outer cache

[PATCH] ARM: mm: add ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_7 for UniPhier outer cache

[Masahiro Yamada]

The UniPhier outer cache (arch/arm/mm/cache-uniphier.c) has 128 byte
line length and its tags are also managed per 128 byte line.  This
is very unfortunate, but the current 64 byte alignment for kmalloc()
causes sharing problems on DMA if used with this outer cache.

This commit adds ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_7 to increase the DMA minimum
alignment to 128 byte if CACHE_UNIPHIER is enabled.  There are
several drivers that assume aligning to L1_CACHE_BYTES will be DMA
safe, so this commit also changes the L1_CACHE_BYTES for safety.

Having said that, I hesitate to align all the other SoCs in Multi
platform to the UniPhier's requirement.  So, I am disabling the
CONFIG_CACHE_UNIPHIER by default, so that multi_v7_defconfig will
still with CONFIG_ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=6.  With this, UniPhier SoCs
become a bit slower, but it is much better than system crash.
If desired, the outer-cache can be enabled by the merge_config or
something.

Note:
The UniPhier PH1-Pro5 SoC is equipped also with L3 cache with 256 byte
line size but its tags are managed per 128 byte sub-line.
So, ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_7 should be fine for all the UniPhier SoCs.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
---

I threw a question in January this year:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-January/400289.html

After a long interval, I came back to this topic.


 arch/arm/mm/Kconfig | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
index c1799dd..f68e8ec 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
@@ -991,7 +991,7 @@ config CACHE_TAUROS2
 config CACHE_UNIPHIER
 	bool "Enable the UniPhier outer cache controller"
 	depends on ARCH_UNIPHIER
-	default y
+	select ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_7
 	select OUTER_CACHE
 	select OUTER_CACHE_SYNC
 	help
@@ -1012,8 +1012,14 @@ config ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_6
 	help
 	  Setting ARM L1 cache line size to 64 Bytes.
 
+config ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_7
+	bool
+	help
+	  Setting ARM L1 cache line size to 128 Bytes.
+
 config ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT
 	int
+	default 7 if ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_7
 	default 6 if ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_6
 	default 5
 
-- 
1.9.1

[PATCH] ARM: mm: add ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_7 for UniPhier outer cache

[Masahiro Yamada]

Hi.

If there is no objection to this patch,
I will put it into Russell's patch tracker.


2016-10-19 21:39 GMT+09:00 Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>:
> The UniPhier outer cache (arch/arm/mm/cache-uniphier.c) has 128 byte
> line length and its tags are also managed per 128 byte line.  This
> is very unfortunate, but the current 64 byte alignment for kmalloc()
> causes sharing problems on DMA if used with this outer cache.
>
> This commit adds ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_7 to increase the DMA minimum
> alignment to 128 byte if CACHE_UNIPHIER is enabled.  There are
> several drivers that assume aligning to L1_CACHE_BYTES will be DMA
> safe, so this commit also changes the L1_CACHE_BYTES for safety.
>
> Having said that, I hesitate to align all the other SoCs in Multi
> platform to the UniPhier's requirement.  So, I am disabling the
> CONFIG_CACHE_UNIPHIER by default, so that multi_v7_defconfig will
> still with CONFIG_ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=6.  With this, UniPhier SoCs
> become a bit slower, but it is much better than system crash.
> If desired, the outer-cache can be enabled by the merge_config or
> something.
>
> Note:
> The UniPhier PH1-Pro5 SoC is equipped also with L3 cache with 256 byte
> line size but its tags are managed per 128 byte sub-line.
> So, ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_7 should be fine for all the UniPhier SoCs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
> ---
>
> I threw a question in January this year:
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-January/400289.html
>
> After a long interval, I came back to this topic.
>
>
>  arch/arm/mm/Kconfig | 8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
> index c1799dd..f68e8ec 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
> @@ -991,7 +991,7 @@ config CACHE_TAUROS2
>  config CACHE_UNIPHIER
>         bool "Enable the UniPhier outer cache controller"
>         depends on ARCH_UNIPHIER
> -       default y
> +       select ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_7
>         select OUTER_CACHE
>         select OUTER_CACHE_SYNC
>         help
> @@ -1012,8 +1012,14 @@ config ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_6
>         help
>           Setting ARM L1 cache line size to 64 Bytes.
>
> +config ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_7
> +       bool
> +       help
> +         Setting ARM L1 cache line size to 128 Bytes.
> +
>  config ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT
>         int
> +       default 7 if ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_7
>         default 6 if ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_6
>         default 5
>
> --
> 1.9.1
>
>
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-- 
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Masahiro Yamada

[PATCH] ARM: mm: add ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_7 for UniPhier outer cache

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 12:31:04AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> If there is no objection to this patch,
> I will put it into Russell's patch tracker.

I don't think I have any objection, it's following the same pattern
that we have for 64-byte cache lines, and this is about the only way
to deal with it.

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[PATCH] ARM: mm: add ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_7 for UniPhier outer cache

[Masahiro Yamada]

The UniPhier outer cache (arch/arm/mm/cache-uniphier.c) has 128 byte
line length and its tags are also managed per 128 byte line.  This
is very unfortunate, but the current 64 byte alignment for kmalloc()
causes sharing problems on DMA if used with this outer cache.

This commit adds ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_7 to increase the DMA minimum
alignment to 128 byte if CACHE_UNIPHIER is enabled.  There are
several drivers that assume aligning to L1_CACHE_BYTES will be DMA
safe, so this commit also changes the L1_CACHE_BYTES for safety.

Having said that, I hesitate to align all the other SoCs in Multi
platform to the UniPhier's requirement.  So, I am disabling the
CONFIG_CACHE_UNIPHIER by default, so that multi_v7_defconfig will
still stay with CONFIG_ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=6.  With this commit,
UniPhier SoCs will become slower, but it is much better than system
crash.  If desired, the outer-cache can be enabled by merge_config
or something.

Note:
The UniPhier PH1-Pro5 SoC is equipped also with L3 cache with 256
byte line size but its tags are managed per 128 byte sub-line.
So, ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_7 should be fine for all the UniPhier SoCs.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
---

Kernel Version: 4.9-rc1


 arch/arm/mm/Kconfig | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
index c1799dd..f68e8ec 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
@@ -991,7 +991,7 @@ config CACHE_TAUROS2
 config CACHE_UNIPHIER
 	bool "Enable the UniPhier outer cache controller"
 	depends on ARCH_UNIPHIER
-	default y
+	select ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_7
 	select OUTER_CACHE
 	select OUTER_CACHE_SYNC
 	help
@@ -1012,8 +1012,14 @@ config ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_6
 	help
 	  Setting ARM L1 cache line size to 64 Bytes.
 
+config ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_7
+	bool
+	help
+	  Setting ARM L1 cache line size to 128 Bytes.
+
 config ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT
 	int
+	default 7 if ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_7
 	default 6 if ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_6
 	default 5
 
-- 
1.9.1

[PATCH] ARM: mm: add ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_7 for UniPhier outer cache

[Masahiro Yamada]

The UniPhier outer cache (arch/arm/mm/cache-uniphier.c) has 128 byte
line length and its tags are also managed per 128 byte line.  This
is very unfortunate, but the current 64 byte alignment for kmalloc()
causes sharing problems on DMA if used with this outer cache.

This commit adds ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_7 to increase the DMA minimum
alignment to 128 byte if CACHE_UNIPHIER is enabled.  There are
several drivers that assume aligning to L1_CACHE_BYTES will be DMA
safe, so this commit also changes the L1_CACHE_BYTES for safety.

Having said that, I hesitate to align all the other SoCs in Multi
platform to the UniPhier's requirement.  So, I am disabling the
CONFIG_CACHE_UNIPHIER by default, so that multi_v7_defconfig will
still stay with CONFIG_ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=6.  With this commit,
UniPhier SoCs will become slower, but it is much better than system
crash.  If desired, the outer-cache can be enabled by merge_config
or something.

Note:
The UniPhier PH1-Pro5 SoC is equipped also with L3 cache with 256
byte line size but its tags are managed per 128 byte sub-line.
So, ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_7 should be fine for all the UniPhier SoCs.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
---

KernelVersion: 4.9-rc1


 arch/arm/mm/Kconfig | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
index c1799dd..f68e8ec 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
@@ -991,7 +991,7 @@ config CACHE_TAUROS2
 config CACHE_UNIPHIER
 	bool "Enable the UniPhier outer cache controller"
 	depends on ARCH_UNIPHIER
-	default y
+	select ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_7
 	select OUTER_CACHE
 	select OUTER_CACHE_SYNC
 	help
@@ -1012,8 +1012,14 @@ config ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_6
 	help
 	  Setting ARM L1 cache line size to 64 Bytes.
 
+config ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_7
+	bool
+	help
+	  Setting ARM L1 cache line size to 128 Bytes.
+
 config ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT
 	int
+	default 7 if ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_7
 	default 6 if ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_6
 	default 5
 
-- 
1.9.1