[PATCH v3] ARM: l2c: add options to overwrite prefetching behavior
From: hauke@hauke-m.de (Hauke Mehrtens)
Date: 2015-05-29 17:33:33
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Will this make it into kernel 4.2 or do I have to do something so that this will make it into 4.2? Hauke On 05/15/2015 11:52 PM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
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These options make it possible to overwrites the data and instruction prefetching behavior of the arm pl310 cache controller. Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de> --- v2: only set prefetch v1: set prefetch and aux Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2cc.txt | 4 ++++ arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2cc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2cc.txt index 0dbabe9..528821a 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2cc.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2cc.txt@@ -67,6 +67,10 @@ Optional properties: disable if zero. - arm,prefetch-offset : Override prefetch offset value. Valid values are 0-7, 15, 23, and 31. +- arm,prefetch-data : Enable data prefetch. Enabling prefetching + can improve performance. +- arm,prefetch-instr : Enable instruction prefetch. Enabling prefetching + can improve performance. Example:diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c b/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c index e309c8f..1aa970a 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c +++ b/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c@@ -1199,6 +1199,26 @@ static void __init l2c310_of_parse(const struct device_node *np, pr_err("L2C-310 OF arm,prefetch-offset property value is missing\n"); } + ret = of_property_read_u32(np, "arm,prefetch-data", &val); + if (ret == 0) { + if (val) + prefetch |= L310_PREFETCH_CTRL_DATA_PREFETCH; + else + prefetch &= ~L310_PREFETCH_CTRL_DATA_PREFETCH; + } else if (ret != -EINVAL) { + pr_err("L2C-310 OF arm,prefetch-data property value is missing\n"); + } + + ret = of_property_read_u32(np, "arm,prefetch-instr", &val); + if (ret == 0) { + if (val) + prefetch |= L310_PREFETCH_CTRL_INSTR_PREFETCH; + else + prefetch &= ~L310_PREFETCH_CTRL_INSTR_PREFETCH; + } else if (ret != -EINVAL) { + pr_err("L2C-310 OF arm,prefetch-instr property value is missing\n"); + } + l2x0_saved_regs.prefetch_ctrl = prefetch; }