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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] arm64/mm: Enable color zero pages
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On 2020-09-16 09:28, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 01:25:23PM +1000, Gavin Shan wrote:
>> This enables color zero pages by allocating contigous page frames
>> for it. The number of pages for this is determined by L1 dCache
>> (or iCache) size, which is probbed from the hardware.
>>
>> * Add cache_total_size() to return L1 dCache (or iCache) size
>>
>> * Implement setup_zero_pages(), which is called after the page
>> allocator begins to work, to allocate the contigous pages
>> needed by color zero page.
>>
>> * Reworked ZERO_PAGE() and define __HAVE_COLOR_ZERO_PAGE.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
>> ---
>> arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++
>> arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 9 ++++++--
>> arch/arm64/kernel/cacheinfo.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 7 -------
>> 5 files changed, 98 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h
>> index a4d1b5f771f6..420e9dde2c51 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h
>> @@ -39,6 +39,27 @@
>> #define CLIDR_LOC(clidr) (((clidr) >> CLIDR_LOC_SHIFT) & 0x7)
>> #define CLIDR_LOUIS(clidr) (((clidr) >> CLIDR_LOUIS_SHIFT) & 0x7)
>>
>> +#define CSSELR_TND_SHIFT 4
>> +#define CSSELR_TND_MASK (UL(1) << CSSELR_TND_SHIFT)
>> +#define CSSELR_LEVEL_SHIFT 1
>> +#define CSSELR_LEVEL_MASK (UL(7) << CSSELR_LEVEL_SHIFT)
>> +#define CSSELR_IND_SHIFT 0
>> +#define CSSERL_IND_MASK (UL(1) << CSSELR_IND_SHIFT)
>> +
>> +#define CCSIDR_64_LS_SHIFT 0
>> +#define CCSIDR_64_LS_MASK (UL(7) << CCSIDR_64_LS_SHIFT)
>> +#define CCSIDR_64_ASSOC_SHIFT 3
>> +#define CCSIDR_64_ASSOC_MASK (UL(0x1FFFFF) << CCSIDR_64_ASSOC_SHIFT)
>> +#define CCSIDR_64_SET_SHIFT 32
>> +#define CCSIDR_64_SET_MASK (UL(0xFFFFFF) << CCSIDR_64_SET_SHIFT)
>> +
>> +#define CCSIDR_32_LS_SHIFT 0
>> +#define CCSIDR_32_LS_MASK (UL(7) << CCSIDR_32_LS_SHIFT)
>> +#define CCSIDR_32_ASSOC_SHIFT 3
>> +#define CCSIDR_32_ASSOC_MASK (UL(0x3FF) << CCSIDR_32_ASSOC_SHIFT)
>> +#define CCSIDR_32_SET_SHIFT 13
>> +#define CCSIDR_32_SET_MASK (UL(0x7FFF) << CCSIDR_32_SET_SHIFT)
>
> I don't think we should be inferring cache structure from these register
> values. The Arm ARM helpfully says:
>
> | You cannot make any inference about the actual sizes of caches based
> | on these parameters.
>
> so we need to take the topology information from elsewhere.

Yes, these represent parameters for the low-level cache maintenance by
set/way instructions, and nothing more. There are definitely cases where
they do not reflect the underlying cache structure (commit 793acf870ea3
is an obvious first call).

Robin.

> But before we get into that, can you justify why we need to do this at all,
> please? Do you have data to show the benefit of adding this complexity?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Will
>
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