From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Schwierzeck Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 17:43:53 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] MIPS: Move cache sizes to Kconfig In-Reply-To: <57485C47.8090407@denx.de> References: <20160526155850.25412-1-paul.burton@imgtec.com> <20160526155850.25412-2-paul.burton@imgtec.com> <57471FFE.50505@denx.de> <20160527103634.GB10442@NP-P-BURTON> <57485A7A.3050805@denx.de> <20160527143458.GA23805@NP-P-BURTON> <57485C47.8090407@denx.de> Message-ID: <57486B39.9060206@gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Am 27.05.2016 um 16:40 schrieb Marek Vasut: > On 05/27/2016 04:34 PM, Paul Burton wrote: >> On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 04:32:26PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote: >>> On 05/27/2016 12:36 PM, Paul Burton wrote: >>>> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 06:10:38PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote: >>>>>> diff --git a/arch/mips/lib/cache.c b/arch/mips/lib/cache.c >>>>>> index 7482005..7695325 100644 >>>>>> --- a/arch/mips/lib/cache.c >>>>>> +++ b/arch/mips/lib/cache.c >>>>>> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ >>>>>> #include >>>>>> #include >>>>>> >>>>>> -#ifdef CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE >>>>>> +#if CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE != 0 >>>>> >>>>> Wouldn't it make more sense to introduce something like >>>>> CONFIG_HAVE_CACHE_SUPPORT instead , so you don't need this >>>>> #if CONFIG_FOO != 0 construct all over the place ? >>>> >>>> Hi Marek, >>>> >>>> It's not about whether cache support is present (we always build cache >>>> support), it's about whether we are hardcoding the sizes of the caches >>>> or detecting them at runtime. The latter is especially useful on >>>> FPGA-based platforms like Malta where the CPU (& caches) can change. I >>>> suppose I could add something like CONFIG_SYS_CACHE_SIZE_AUTO, but I >>>> still think it would be cleanest to have that default to a value based >>>> upon whether a board has set a non-zero size for any of the caches. >>> >>> Auto-detecting cacheline size is cool, but that'd need much more work. >>> Just grep through drivers/ for CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE and you'll >>> see a lot of code depends on non-zero value in it. Setting it to zero >>> will just bite you at some point in a nasty way. >> >> Hi Marek, > > Hi! > >> We're already using the cache size auto-detection on Malta, and on 2 >> other FPGA-based boards internally. I've submitted v2 which preserves >> CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE as a synonym of ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN for the >> drivers that are still using it. > > That's a good workaround for now. Would you be interested in fixing this > runtime cache configuration properly ? > there is no runtime configuration for ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN. This value is defined at compile-time by Kconfig option MIPS_L1_CACHE_SHIFT. This is similar to what Linux is doing. -- - Daniel -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 473 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: