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Message-ID: <CACRpkdZ1Joi+UW6EQuatx3Z0P0o+HULjwXB9vaAWOJxdBsNO8Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:07:36 +0100
From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>
Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>, 
	Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, 
	linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>, Konrad Dybcio <konradybcio@...nel.org>, 
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] ARM: implement cacheinfo support (for v7/v7m)

On Fri, Jan 3, 2025 at 6:55 AM Dmitry Baryshkov
<dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2024 at 04:34:36PM +0200, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 07, 2024 at 02:55:55PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > > Hi Dmitry,
> > >
> > > On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 3:55 PM Dmitry Baryshkov
> > > <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Follow the ARM64 platform and implement simple cache information driver.
> > > > As it reads data from CTR (ARMv6+) and CLIDR (ARMv7+) registers, it is
> > > > limited to the ARMv7 / ARMv7M, providing simple fallback or just
> > > > returning -EOPNOTSUPP in case of older platforms.
> > > >
> > > > In theory we should be able to skip CLIDR reading and assume that Dcache
> > > > and Icache (or unified L1 cache) always exist if CTR is supported and
> > > > returns sensible value. However I think this better be handled by the
> > > > maintainers of corresponding platforms.
> > > >
> > > > Other than just providing information to the userspace, this patchset is
> > > > required in order to implement L2 cache driver (and in the end CPU
> > > > frequency scaling) on ARMv7-based Qualcomm devices.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>
> > >
> > > I added my review tags to the v2 patches, can you put them
> > > into Russell's patch tracker?
> >
> > Done, 9432/1 and 9433/1, thank you!
>
> These patches are still in the patch tracker in the "Incoming" state.
>
> Russell, Linus (and Sudeep, Ard, Arnd), is there anything blocking them
> from being accepted?

I added my Reviewed-by, perhaps rebase them on v6.13-rc1 so
Russell knows it applies cleanly? (It's pretty straight-forward to
supercede a patch in the tracker.)

Yours,
Linus Walleij

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