linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM: copy_page.S: take into account the size of the cache line

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Date:	Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:55:53 +0100
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Siarhei Siamashka <siarhei.siamashka@...ia.com>
Cc:	ext Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
	ARM Linux Mailing List 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: copy_page.S: take into account the size of the
	cache line

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 04:12:19PM +0300, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> On Saturday 11 July 2009 02:51:23 ext Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > > From: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@...temov.name>
> > >
> > > Optimized version of copy_page() was written with assumption that cache
> > > line size is 32 bytes. On Cortex-A8 cache line size is 64 bytes.
> > >
> > > This patch tries to generalize copy_page() to work with any cache line
> > > size if cache line size is multiple of 16 and page size is multiple of
> > > two cache line size.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, kernel doesn't provide a macros with correct cache size.
> > > L1_CACHE_SHIFT is 5 on any ARM. So we have to define macros for this
> > > propose by ourself.
> >
> > Why don't you fix L1_CACHE_SHIFT for Cortex-A8?
> 
> That's the plan.

L1_CACHE_SHIFT is supposed to be a constant and the maximum cache line
shift for the processors in use.

Other functions (eg, dma_get_cache_alignment) can return either this or
the real cache line size.
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