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From: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/2] ARM: Move SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE over to Kconfig
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 09:39:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160822133902.GC5342@bill-the-cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1471872244.1873.5.camel@altera.com>

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 09:24:04PM +0800, Chin Liang See wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On Mon, 2016-08-22 at 08:22 -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
> > This series moves the CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE.  First, in nearly
> > all
> > cases we are mirroring the values used by the Linux Kernel here. 
> >  Also,
> > so long as (and in this case, it is true) we implement flushes in
> > hunks
> > that are no larger than the smallest implementation (and given that
> > we
> > mirror the Linux Kernel, again we are fine) it is OK to align higher.
> > The biggest changes here are that we always use 64 bytes for CPU_V7
> > even
> > if for example the underlying core is only 32 bytes (this mirrors
> > Linux).  Second, we say ARM64 uses 64 bytes not 128 (as found in the
> > Linux Kernel) as we do not need multi-platform support (to this
> > degree)
> > and only the Cavium ThunderX 88xx series has a use for such large
> > alignment.
> > 
> > 
> ...
> 
> >  arch/arm/Kconfig                                  | 27
> 
> > ... 
> 
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> > index aef901c3f448..e6d4a2043854 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> > @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ config SYS_ARCH
> > 
> 
> ...
> 
> >  
> >  config CPU_V7
> >          bool
> >          select HAS_VBAR
> >          select HAS_THUMB2
> > +	select SYS_CACHE_SHIFT_6
> >  
> 
> CPU_V7 should use SYS_CACHE_SHIFT_5 which is 32 bytes cache lines.

No, some V7 are 32 and some are 64, for example Cortex-A8.

-- 
Tom
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-22 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-22 12:22 [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/2] ARM: Move SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE over to Kconfig Tom Rini
2016-08-22 12:22 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 2/2] arch/arm/Kconfig: Whitespace correction Tom Rini
2016-08-29 12:01   ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, v2, " Tom Rini
2016-08-22 12:41 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/2] ARM: Move SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE over to Kconfig Masahiro Yamada
2016-08-22 13:24 ` Chin Liang See
2016-08-22 13:39   ` Tom Rini [this message]
2016-08-22 14:18     ` Chin Liang See
2016-08-22 14:44 ` Ladislav Michl
2016-08-22 14:59   ` Tom Rini
2016-08-22 16:34 ` Stephen Warren
2016-08-22 16:55   ` Tom Rini
2016-08-24 15:20 ` Paul Kocialkowski
2016-08-29 12:01 ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, v2, " Tom Rini

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