linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] MIPS: c-r4k: Invalidate BMIPS5000 ZSCM prefetch lines

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Message-ID: <20200316153108.GA13674@alpha.franken.de>
Date:   Mon, 16 Mar 2020 16:31:08 +0100
From:   Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
To:     Kamal Dasu <kdasu.kdev@...il.com>
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        Paul Burton <paulburton@...nel.org>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>,
        Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@...goat.com>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhc@...ote.com>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] MIPS: c-r4k: Invalidate BMIPS5000 ZSCM prefetch lines

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 11:09:35PM -0400, Kamal Dasu wrote:
> This is needed on dma reads from device.  

ok.

> > On Mar 11, 2020, at 5:44 PM, Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de> wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 01:54:23PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> >>> On 2/7/20 2:33 PM, Kamal Dasu wrote:
> >>> Zephyr secondary cache is 256KB, 128B lines. 32B sectors. A secondary cache
> >>> line can contain two instruction cache lines (64B), or four data cache
> >>> lines (32B). Hardware prefetch Cache detects stream access, and prefetches
> >>> ahead of processor access. Add support to invalidate BMIPS5000 cpu zephyr
> >>> secondary cache module (ZSCM) on DMA from device so that data returned is
> >>> coherent during DMA read operations.
> >>> 
> >>> Signed-off-by: Kamal Dasu <kdasu.kdev@...il.com>

Applied to mips-next.

Thomas.

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