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

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Mon Apr 25 2016 - 18:14:30 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>

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