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From: Richard Cheng <icheng@nvidia.com>
To: tony.luck@intel.com, reinette.chatre@intel.com, shuah@kernel.org
Cc: Dave.Martin@arm.com, james.morse@arm.com, babu.moger@amd.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	yu.c.chen@intel.com, fenghuay@nvidia.com, newtonl@nvidia.com,
	kristinc@nvidia.com, kaihengf@nvidia.com, kobak@nvidia.com,
	Richard Cheng <icheng@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/3] selftests/resctrl: Implement cl_flush() and sb() for aarch64
Date: Fri, 29 May 2026 10:23:50 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260529022352.8308-3-icheng@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260529022352.8308-1-icheng@nvidia.com>

cl_flush() and sb() in fill_buf.c only have implementations for i386
and x86_64, so on aarch64 both compile to empty functions. mem_flush()
then walks the buffer calling a no-op cl_flush() per cache line and
finishes with a no-op sb(), leaving any caller that expects a flushed
buffer (e.g. CMT, L3_CAT) operating on unflushed state with no warning.

Add an aarch64 code block using the ARM equivalents:
* "dc civac, %0" for cl_flush()
* "dsb sy"       for sb()

Both instructions are EL0-accessible on Linux aarch64.

Signed-off-by: Richard Cheng <icheng@nvidia.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c
index 19a01a52dc1a..a41d21e5a64e 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ static void sb(void)
 #if defined(__i386) || defined(__x86_64)
 	asm volatile("sfence\n\t"
 		     : : : "memory");
+#elif defined(__aarch64__)
+	asm volatile("dsb sy\n\t"
+		     : : : "memory");
 #endif
 }
 
@@ -35,6 +38,9 @@ static void cl_flush(void *p)
 #if defined(__i386) || defined(__x86_64)
 	asm volatile("clflush (%0)\n\t"
 		     : : "r"(p) : "memory");
+#elif defined(__aarch64__)
+	asm volatile("dc civac, %0\n\t"
+		     : : "r"(p) : "memory");
 #endif
 }
 
-- 
2.43.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-05-29  2:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-29  2:23 [PATCH v3 0/3] selftests/resctrl: Fix resctrl selftests issues on aarch64 Richard Cheng
2026-05-29  2:23 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] selftests/resctrl: Skip L3_CAT when no exclusive cache portion exists Richard Cheng
2026-05-29  2:23 ` Richard Cheng [this message]
2026-05-29  2:23 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] selftests/resctrl: Recognise aarch64 as a vendor for L3_NONCONT_CAT Richard Cheng
2026-05-29  2:28 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] selftests/resctrl: Fix resctrl selftests issues on aarch64 Richard Cheng

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