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Subject[PATCH v3 8/9] MIPS: Honor L2 bypass bit
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[v3: Fix build errors]

On many of the newer MIPS32 cores, CP0 CONFIG2 bit 12 (L2B) indicates
that the L2 cache is disabled and therefore Linux should not attempt
to use it.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
---
arch/mips/mm/sc-mips.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/mm/sc-mips.c b/arch/mips/mm/sc-mips.c
index 5ab5fa8..ef625eb 100644
--- a/arch/mips/mm/sc-mips.c
+++ b/arch/mips/mm/sc-mips.c
@@ -57,6 +57,38 @@ static struct bcache_ops mips_sc_ops = {
.bc_inv = mips_sc_inv
};

+/*
+ * Check if the L2 cache controller is activated on a particular platform.
+ * MTI's L2 controller and the L2 cache controller of Broadcom's BMIPS
+ * cores both use c0_config2's bit 12 as "L2 Bypass" bit, that is the
+ * cache being disabled. However there is no guarantee for this to be
+ * true on all platforms. In an act of stupidity the spec defined bits
+ * 12..15 as implementation defined so below function will eventually have
+ * to be replaced by a platform specific probe.
+ */
+static inline int mips_sc_is_activated(struct cpuinfo_mips *c,
+ unsigned int config2)
+{
+ unsigned int tmp;
+
+ /* Check the bypass bit (L2B) */
+ switch (c->cputype) {
+ case CPU_34K:
+ case CPU_74K:
+ case CPU_1004K:
+ case CPU_BMIPS5000:
+ if (config2 & (1 << 12))
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ tmp = (config2 >> 4) & 0x0f;
+ if (0 < tmp && tmp <= 7)
+ c->scache.linesz = 2 << tmp;
+ else
+ return 0;
+ return 1;
+}
+
static inline int __init mips_sc_probe(void)
{
struct cpuinfo_mips *c = &current_cpu_data;
@@ -79,10 +111,8 @@ static inline int __init mips_sc_probe(void)
return 0;

config2 = read_c0_config2();
- tmp = (config2 >> 4) & 0x0f;
- if (0 < tmp && tmp <= 7)
- c->scache.linesz = 2 << tmp;
- else
+
+ if (!mips_sc_is_activated(c, config2))
return 0;

tmp = (config2 >> 8) & 0x0f;
--
1.7.0.4


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