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* [PATCH v2 0/2] riscv: errata: thead: use riscv_nonstd_cache_ops for CMO
@ 2023-10-01 10:34 Jisheng Zhang
  2023-10-01 10:34 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] " Jisheng Zhang
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Jisheng Zhang @ 2023-10-01 10:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Paul Walmsley, Palmer Dabbelt, Albert Ou
  Cc: Guo Ren, linux-riscv, linux-kernel

Previously, we use alternative mechanism to dynamically patch
the CMO operations for THEAD C906/C910 during boot for performance
reason. But as pointed out by Arnd, "there is already a significant
cost in accessing the invalidated cache lines afterwards, which is
likely going to be much higher than the cost of an indirect branch".
And indeed, there's no performance difference with GMAC and EMMC per
my test on Sipeed Lichee Pi 4A board.

Use riscv_nonstd_cache_ops for THEAD C906/C910 CMO to simplify
the alternative code, and to acchieve Arnd's goal -- "I think
moving the THEAD ops at the same level as all nonstandard operations
makes sense, but I'd still leave CMO as an explicit fast path that
avoids the indirect branch. This seems like the right thing to do both
for readability and for platforms on which the indirect branch has a
noticeable overhead."

To make bisect easy, I use two patches here: patch1 does the conversion
which just mimics current CMO behavior via. riscv_nonstd_cache_ops, I
assume no functionalities changes. patch2 uses T-HEAD PA based CMO
instructions so that we don't need to covert PA to VA.

Hi Guo,

I didn't use wback_inv for wback as you suggested during v1 reviewing,
this can be left as future optimizations.

Thanks

since v1:
  - collect Tested-by tag
  - add patch2 to use T-HEAD PA based CMO instructions.

Jisheng Zhang (2):
  riscv: errata: thead: use riscv_nonstd_cache_ops for CMO
  riscv: errata: thead: use pa based instructions for CMO

 arch/riscv/Kconfig.errata            |  1 +
 arch/riscv/errata/thead/errata.c     | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 arch/riscv/include/asm/errata_list.h | 50 +++-----------------
 3 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)

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2.40.1


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2023-10-01 10:34 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] " Jisheng Zhang
2023-10-02 10:55   ` Conor Dooley
2023-10-06  2:43   ` Guo Ren
2023-10-12 12:43   ` Clément Léger
2023-10-12 14:17     ` Jisheng Zhang
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