linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM: cache-uniphier: activate ways for secondary CPUs

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Date:	Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:55:35 +0900
From:	Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: cache-uniphier: activate ways for secondary CPUs

Hi Arnd,

2016-04-26 7:13 GMT+09:00 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>:
> On Friday 15 April 2016 16:05:46 Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>> This outer cache allows to control active ways independently for
>> each CPU, but currently nothing is done for secondary CPUs.  In
>> other words, all the ways are locked for secondary CPUs by default.
>> This commit fixes it to fully bring out the performance of this
>> outer cache.
>>
>> There would be two possible ways to achieve this:
>>
>> [1] Each CPU initializes active ways for itself.  This can be done
>>     via the SSCLPDAWCR register.  This is a banked register, so each
>>     CPU sees a different instance of the register.
>>
>> [2] The master CPU initializes active ways for all the CPUs.  This
>>     is available via SSCDAWCARMR(N) registers.  They are mapped at
>>     the address SSCDAWCARMR + 4 * N, where N is the CPU number.
>>
>> Currently, the outer cache frame work does not support a per-CPU
>> init callback.  So this commit adopts [2]; the master CPU iterates
>> over possible CPUs setting up SSCDAWCARMR(N) registers.
>>
>> Unfortunately, the register offsets of SSCDAWCARMR(N) are different
>> by SoC.  We can live with it by checking the version register.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
>>
>
> Applied to next/soc, thanks!
>
> I'm a little lost with the patches you send, could you check that
> I have applied all the ones you sent for 4.7 so far?
>
>         Arnd


Was this one really applied, or not yet?

My intention was to send this one just for review,
because outer-cache things are generally in Russell's field.

If you have already applied it, I should drop it
from Russell's patch tracker.
(Sorry, I should have mentioned it.)

Please let me know the status.

-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada