Re: [PATCH v8 5/7] cache: Add L2 cache management for Andes AX45MP RISC-V core

From: Conor Dooley
Date: Wed Apr 12 2023 - 16:25:47 EST


On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 12:08:58PM +0100, Prabhakar wrote:
> From: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I/O Coherence Port (IOCP) provides an AXI interface for connecting
> external non-caching masters, such as DMA controllers. The accesses
> from IOCP are coherent with D-Caches and L2 Cache.
>
> IOCP is a specification option and is disabled on the Renesas RZ/Five
> SoC due to this reason IP blocks using DMA will fail.
>
> The Andes AX45MP core has a Programmable Physical Memory Attributes (PMA)
> block that allows dynamic adjustment of memory attributes in the runtime.
> It contains a configurable amount of PMA entries implemented as CSR
> registers to control the attributes of memory locations in interest.
> Below are the memory attributes supported:
> * Device, Non-bufferable
> * Device, bufferable
> * Memory, Non-cacheable, Non-bufferable
> * Memory, Non-cacheable, Bufferable
> * Memory, Write-back, No-allocate
> * Memory, Write-back, Read-allocate
> * Memory, Write-back, Write-allocate
> * Memory, Write-back, Read and Write-allocate
>
> More info about PMA (section 10.3):
> Link: http://www.andestech.com/wp-content/uploads/AX45MP-1C-Rev.-5.0.0-Datasheet.pdf
>
> As a workaround for SoCs with IOCP disabled CMO needs to be handled by
> software. Firstly OpenSBI configures the memory region as
> "Memory, Non-cacheable, Bufferable" and passes this region as a global
> shared dma pool as a DT node. With DMA_GLOBAL_POOL enabled all DMA
> allocations happen from this region and synchronization callbacks are
> implemented to synchronize when doing DMA transactions.
>
> Example PMA region passes as a DT node from OpenSBI:
> reserved-memory {
> #address-cells = <2>;
> #size-cells = <2>;
> ranges;
>
> pma_resv0@58000000 {
> compatible = "shared-dma-pool";
> reg = <0x0 0x58000000 0x0 0x08000000>;
> no-map;
> linux,dma-default;
> };
> };
>
> Signed-off-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v7 -> v8
> * Dropped function pointer usage
> * Now exporting the functions for clean/inval/flush
> * Switched to using early_initcall instead of arch_initcall
> * Dropped entry for "include/cache" from MAINTAINERS
> * Dropped dependency of RISCV on AX45MP_L2_CACHE
> * Returning error in case of cache line mismatch

> * Renamed clean/inval/flush functions

I kinda screwed you with that request given Hellwig's NAK on the
function pointer based stuff. Ah well, I prefer matching the proposed
naming of the dma core to what RVI chose for the instructions.

Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I suppose this will need a resubmission once Arnd's stuff gets applied,
but I would like to see it have a run through the build bots etc.

Cheers,
Conor.

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