Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/2] MIPS: cacheinfo: Add missing VCache

[Tiezhu Yang]

On 11/03/2020 01:40 PM, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
> 在 2020/8/22 0:55, Thomas Bogendoerfer 写道:
> > On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 08:42:49AM +0800, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
> > > Victim Cache is defined by Loongson as per-core unified
> > > private Cache.
> > > Add this into cacheinfo and make cache levels selfincrement
> > > instead of hardcode levels.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >   arch/mips/kernel/cacheinfo.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> > >   1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/cacheinfo.c 
> > > b/arch/mips/kernel/cacheinfo.c
> > > index 47312c529410..83548331ee94 100644
> > > --- a/arch/mips/kernel/cacheinfo.c
> > > +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/cacheinfo.c
> > > @@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ static int __init_cache_level(unsigned int cpu)
> > >         leaves += (c->icache.waysize) ? 2 : 1;
> > >   +    if (c->vcache.waysize) {
> > > +        levels++;
> > > +        leaves++;
> > > +    }
> > > +
> > >       if (c->scache.waysize) {
> > >           levels++;
> > >           leaves++;
> > > @@ -74,25 +79,38 @@ static int __populate_cache_leaves(unsigned int 
> > > cpu)
> > >       struct cpuinfo_mips *c = &current_cpu_data;
> > >       struct cpu_cacheinfo *this_cpu_ci = get_cpu_cacheinfo(cpu);
> > >       struct cacheinfo *this_leaf = this_cpu_ci->info_list;
> > > +    int level = 1;
> > >         if (c->icache.waysize) {
> > > -        /* L1 caches are per core */
> > > +        /* D/I caches are per core */
> > >           fill_cpumask_siblings(cpu, &this_leaf->shared_cpu_map);
> > > -        populate_cache(dcache, this_leaf, 1, CACHE_TYPE_DATA);
> > > +        populate_cache(dcache, this_leaf, level, CACHE_TYPE_DATA);
> > >           fill_cpumask_siblings(cpu, &this_leaf->shared_cpu_map);
> > > -        populate_cache(icache, this_leaf, 1, CACHE_TYPE_INST);
> > > +        populate_cache(icache, this_leaf, level, CACHE_TYPE_INST);
> > > +        level++;
> > >       } else {
> > > -        populate_cache(dcache, this_leaf, 1, CACHE_TYPE_UNIFIED);
> > > +        populate_cache(dcache, this_leaf, level, CACHE_TYPE_UNIFIED);
> > > +        level++;
> > > +    }
> > > +
> > > +    if (c->vcache.waysize) {
> > why can't we insert vcache as level 4 and leave the rest of the file
> > alone ?
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> Oops I forgot this patch.
>
> Because  VCache is physicaly placed between Scache and I/D Cache as per
> core chahe, it will confuse userspace program otherwise.
>
> Also I do think the level should be continues.

With this patch, we can see the vcache info as L2 cache
and scache info as L3 cache on the Loongson 3A3000
and 3A4000 platform.

Tested-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> Thanks
>
> - Jiaxun
>
> > Thomas.