linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 9/9] arm64: Work around systems with mismatched cache line sizes

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Date:   Fri, 2 Sep 2016 11:03:54 +0100
From:   Suzuki K Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@....com>
To:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 9/9] arm64: Work around systems with mismatched cache
 line sizes

On 26/08/16 18:00, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 05:16:27PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 02:08:01PM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
>>> On 26/08/16 14:04, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:

>> It might be worth looking to see if we can pass the ctr as an extra
>> parameter to the assembly routines that need it. Then you can access it
>> easily from C code, and if you pass it as 0 that could result in the asm
>> code reading it from the h/w register, removing the need for the _raw
>> stuff you add.
>
> How often to we need to access a sanitised sysreg from assembly? AFAICT,
> CTR_EL0 is the first. If we only need it to infer the minimum cache line
> size, we could as well store the latter in a global variable and access
> it directly. If we feel brave, we could patch a "mov \reg, #x"
> instruction in the ?cache_line_size macros (starting with 32 by default,
> though to make it less cumbersome we'd have to improve the run-time
> patching code a bit).


With Ard's patches [1] to refactor the feature array, we can refer to named
CTR_EL0 feature register cleanly. I can rebase this series on top of that
if nobody has any objection.

[1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=147263959504998&w=2


Suzuki