From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/9] arm64: Unify MMU code
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 11:33:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56CD86FC.2060607@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56CB5498.7000900@wwwdotorg.org>
On 22.02.16 19:34, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 02/21/2016 06:57 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> Currently on arm64 there is a big pile of mess when it comes to MMU
>> support and page tables. Each board does its own little thing and the
>> generic code is pretty dumb and nobody actually uses it.
>>
>> This patch set tries to clean that up. After this series is applied,
>> all boards except for the FSL Layerscape ones are converted to the
>> new generic page table logic and have icache+dcache enabled.
>>
>> The new code always uses 4k page size. It dynamically allocates 1G or
>> 2M pages for ranges that fit. When a dcache attribute request comes in
>> that requires a smaller granularity than our previous allocation could
>> fulfill, pages get automatically split.
>>
>> I have tested and verified the code works on HiKey (bare metal),
>> vexpress64 (Foundation Model) and zynqmp (QEMU). The TX1 target is
>> untested, but given the simplicity of the maps I doubt it'll break.
>> ThunderX in theory should also work, but I haven't tested it. I would
>> be very happy if people with access to those system could give the patch
>> set a try.
>>
>> With this we're a big step closer to a good base line for EFI payload
>> support, since we can now just require that all boards always have dcache
>> enabled.
>>
>> I would also be incredibly happy if some Freescale people could look
>> at their MMU code and try to unify it into the now cleaned up generic
>> code. I don't think we're far off here.
>
> The series,
> Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
>
> I tested p2371-2180 (Jetson TX1) ARMv8 development board, including
> PCIe-based RTL8169 Ethernet, which makes use of the APIs to
> allocate/convert memory as/to uncached.
Thanks a bunch for testing! I'll not include the tag in v4, since there
are enough changes that could break something. I would greatly
appreciate if you could test it again by then :).
Alex
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-22 1:57 [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/9] arm64: Unify MMU code Alexander Graf
2016-02-22 1:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/9] thunderx: Calculate TCR dynamically Alexander Graf
2016-02-22 1:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/9] arm64: Make full va map code more dynamic Alexander Graf
2016-02-22 18:18 ` Stephen Warren
2016-02-22 18:37 ` Alexander Graf
2016-02-22 18:45 ` Stephen Warren
2016-02-24 10:21 ` Alexander Graf
2016-02-22 18:42 ` Stephen Warren
2016-02-23 13:17 ` Simon Glass
2016-02-23 17:21 ` Stephen Warren
2016-02-23 17:30 ` Simon Glass
2016-02-23 17:40 ` Stephen Warren
2016-02-23 20:00 ` Simon Glass
2016-02-23 20:33 ` Stephen Warren
2016-02-24 4:42 ` Simon Glass
2016-02-24 16:56 ` Stephen Warren
2016-02-24 10:55 ` Alexander Graf
2016-02-24 17:01 ` Stephen Warren
2016-02-24 17:04 ` Alexander Graf
2016-02-22 1:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/9] zymqmp: Replace home grown mmu code with generic table approach Alexander Graf
2016-02-23 11:04 ` Michal Simek
2016-02-23 11:33 ` Alexander Graf
2016-02-23 13:07 ` Michal Simek
2016-02-26 0:49 ` Alexander Graf
2016-02-26 8:29 ` Michal Simek
2016-02-26 8:55 ` Alexander Graf
2017-02-16 15:26 ` brettstahlman
2016-02-22 1:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/9] tegra: " Alexander Graf
2016-02-22 18:28 ` Stephen Warren
2016-02-23 10:37 ` Michal Simek
2016-02-23 17:29 ` Stephen Warren
2016-02-24 10:28 ` Alexander Graf
2016-02-22 1:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 5/9] vexpress64: Add MMU tables Alexander Graf
2016-02-22 1:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 6/9] dwmmc: Increase retry timeout Alexander Graf
2016-02-22 1:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 7/9] hikey: Add MMU tables Alexander Graf
2016-02-22 1:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 8/9] arm64: Remove non-full-va map code Alexander Graf
2016-02-22 1:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 9/9] arm64: Only allow dcache disabled in SPL builds Alexander Graf
2016-02-22 17:37 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/9] arm64: Unify MMU code york sun
2016-02-22 18:02 ` Alexander Graf
2016-02-22 18:12 ` york sun
2016-02-22 18:31 ` Alexander Graf
2016-02-22 18:39 ` york sun
2016-02-22 19:42 ` Alexander Graf
2016-02-22 19:52 ` york sun
2016-02-22 20:09 ` Alexander Graf
2016-02-22 20:15 ` york sun
2016-02-24 10:19 ` Alexander Graf
2016-02-24 16:57 ` Stephen Warren
2016-02-22 18:34 ` Stephen Warren
2016-02-24 10:33 ` Alexander Graf [this message]
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