On 10/18/2016 09:28 AM, york sun wrote:
On 10/17/2016 04:35 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
From: Stephen Warren <swar...@nvidia.com>
SoC-specific logic may be required for all forms of cache-wide
operations; invalidate and flush of both dcache and icache (note that
only 3 of the 4 possible combinations make sense, since the icache never
contains dirty lines). This patch adds an optional hook for all
implemented cache-wide operations, and renames the one existing hook to
better represent exactly which operation it is implementing. A dummy
no-op implementation of each hook is provided. These dummy
implementations are moved into C code, since there's no need to
implement them in assembly.
Stephen,
Moving this function to C may pose an issue. I had a debug a couple of
years ago that calling a C function put the stack into cache after
flushing L1/L2. That's why I used asm function to flush L3.
Assuming the stack is located in cachable memory, the CPU is free (per
the definition of the ARM architecture) to pull it into the cache at any
time the cache is enabled (and perhaps even when it isn't enabled, at
the very least for the icache on ARMv8 if not other cases too).
Implementation in C vs. assembly has absolutely no effect here. I guess
your statement assumes that C functions will write data to the stack and
assembly functions never will. There's no strict 1:1 correlation between
those two things; assembly code can touch the stack just like C code. If
there's an assumption it won't, it needs to be documented in the header
defining these hook functions.
I assume you're specifically talking about dirtying the dcache between
the point when dcache flushing starts and the point when the dcache is
disabled? If so, flush_dcache_all() itself would have to be manually
coded in assembly to avoid using the stack, as would dcache_disable()
and set_sctlr(). I think this is why dcache_disable() currently disables
the dcache first (thus preventing it acquiring new dirty data) and then
flushes the dcache afterwards (thus guaranteeing that all dirty data is
flushed with no race condition). This implies that your change to swap
the order of those two functions isn't correct. I'm pretty sure I'm
correct in saying that the dcache can hit even if it's disabled, hence
disabling the dcache while it contains dirty data won't lead to issues?
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