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4 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Tirumalesh Chalamarla
9730348075 arm64: Increase the max granular size
Increase the standard cacheline size to avoid having locks in the same
cacheline.

Cavium's ThunderX core implements cache lines of 128 byte size. With
current granulare size of 64 bytes (L1_CACHE_SHIFT=6) two locks could
share the same cache line leading a performance degradation.
Increasing the size fixes that.

Increasing the size has no negative impact to cache invalidation on
systems with a smaller cache line. There is an impact on memory usage,
but that's not too important for arm64 use cases.

Signed-off-by: Tirumalesh Chalamarla <tchalamarla@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@cavium.com>
Acked-by: Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2015-10-28 19:09:17 +00:00
Jungseok Lee
e4f88d833b arm64: Implement support for read-mostly sections
As putting data which is read mostly together, we can avoid
unnecessary cache line bouncing.

Other architectures, such as ARM and x86, adopted the same idea.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jungseok Lee <jungseoklee85@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2014-12-03 10:19:35 +00:00
Catalin Marinas
a41dc0e841 arm64: Implement cache_line_size() based on CTR_EL0.CWG
The hardware provides the maximum cache line size in the system via the
CTR_EL0.CWG bits. This patch implements the cache_line_size() function
to read such information, together with a sanity check if the statically
defined L1_CACHE_BYTES is smaller than the hardware value.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2014-05-09 15:47:45 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
f1a0c4aa09 arm64: Cache maintenance routines
The patch adds functionality required for cache maintenance. The AArch64
architecture mandates non-aliasing VIPT or PIPT D-cache and VIPT (may
have aliases) or ASID-tagged VIVT I-cache. Cache maintenance operations
are automatically broadcast in hardware between CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2012-09-17 13:42:00 +01:00