[PATCH] ARM: mm: enable L1 prefetch on Cortex-A9

[dirk.behme@de.bosch.com (Dirk Behme)]

On 11.06.2015 13:52, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> The Cortex-A9 has a L1 prefetch capability documented at
> http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.ddi0388e/Chdejhgd.html:
>
>    The Cortex-A9 data cache implements an automatic prefetcher that
>    monitors cache misses done by the processor. This unit can monitor
>    and prefetch two independent data streams. It can be activated in
>    software using a CP15 Auxiliary Control Register bit. See Auxiliary
>    Control Register.
>
> This commit enables this L1 prefetch feature unconditionally on all
> Cortex-A9 by setting bit 2 in the Auxiliary Control CP15
> register. Note that since this bit only exists on Cortex-A9 but not on
> Cortex-A5 or Cortex-R7, we separate the handling of Cortex-A9 from the
> one of those two other cores.


Have you observed or measured any performance improvements or changes 
using this change?

Besta regards

Dirk


> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
> ---
>   arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S | 5 ++++-
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
> index 3d1054f..106ea4d 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
> @@ -257,8 +257,11 @@ ENDPROC(cpu_pj4b_do_resume)
>    *	It is assumed that:
>    *	- cache type register is implemented
>    */
> -__v7_ca5mp_setup:
>   __v7_ca9mp_setup:
> +	mov	r10, #(1 << 0)			@ Cache/TLB ops broadcasting
> +	orr	r10, r10, #(1 << 2)		@ L1 prefetch
> +	b	1f
> +__v7_ca5mp_setup:
>   __v7_cr7mp_setup:
>   	mov	r10, #(1 << 0)			@ Cache/TLB ops broadcasting
>   	b	1f