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| author | Srinidhi Kasagar <srinidhi.kasagar@stericsson.com> | 2011-02-17 07:03:51 +0100 |
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| committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2011-02-19 11:23:21 +0000 |
| commit | 885028e4ba4caf49d565c96481e1a05220ecb517 (patch) | |
| tree | 45be55a3aa9cbd14bf924e00f974c43a35c573bc /arch | |
| parent | 0cc9d5257857608ba85885b75fcada13d359b5d1 (diff) | |
ARM: 6741/1: errata: pl310 cache sync operation may be faulty
The effect of cache sync operation is to drain the store buffer and
wait for all internal buffers to be empty. In normal conditions, store
buffer is able to merge the normal memory writes within its 32-byte
data buffers. Due to this erratum present in r3p0, the effect of cache
sync operation on the store buffer still remains when the operation
completes. This means that the store buffer is always asked to drain
and this prevents it from merging any further writes.
This can severely affect performance on the write traffic esp. on
Normal memory NC one.
The proposed workaround is to replace the normal offset of cache sync
operation(0x730) by another offset targeting an unmapped PL310
register 0x740.
Signed-off-by: srinidhi kasagar <srinidhi.kasagar@stericsson.com>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/Kconfig | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/include/asm/hardware/cache-l2x0.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c | 6 |
3 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig index 26d45e5b636..ba9fc213f34 100644 --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig @@ -1177,6 +1177,21 @@ config ARM_ERRATA_743622 visible impact on the overall performance or power consumption of the processor. +config ARM_ERRATA_753970 + bool "ARM errata: cache sync operation may be faulty" + depends on CACHE_PL310 + help + This option enables the workaround for the 753970 PL310 (r3p0) erratum. + + Under some condition the effect of cache sync operation on + the store buffer still remains when the operation completes. + This means that the store buffer is always asked to drain and + this prevents it from merging any further writes. The workaround + is to replace the normal offset of cache sync operation (0x730) + by another offset targeting an unmapped PL310 register 0x740. + This has the same effect as the cache sync operation: store buffer + drain and waiting for all buffers empty. + endmenu source "arch/arm/common/Kconfig" diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/hardware/cache-l2x0.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/hardware/cache-l2x0.h index 5aeec1e1735..16bd4803158 100644 --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/hardware/cache-l2x0.h +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/hardware/cache-l2x0.h @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ #define L2X0_RAW_INTR_STAT 0x21C #define L2X0_INTR_CLEAR 0x220 #define L2X0_CACHE_SYNC 0x730 +#define L2X0_DUMMY_REG 0x740 #define L2X0_INV_LINE_PA 0x770 #define L2X0_INV_WAY 0x77C #define L2X0_CLEAN_LINE_PA 0x7B0 diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c b/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c index 170c9bb9586..f2ce38e085d 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c +++ b/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c @@ -49,7 +49,13 @@ static inline void cache_wait(void __iomem *reg, unsigned long mask) static inline void cache_sync(void) { void __iomem *base = l2x0_base; + +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_753970 + /* write to an unmmapped register */ + writel_relaxed(0, base + L2X0_DUMMY_REG); +#else writel_relaxed(0, base + L2X0_CACHE_SYNC); +#endif cache_wait(base + L2X0_CACHE_SYNC, 1); } |