According to ARC HS databook it is required to flush and disable
caches prior programming IOC registers. Otherwise ongoing coherent
memory operations may not observe the coherency protocols as
expected.
But since in ARC HS v2.1 there's no way to disable SLC (AKA L2 cache)
we're doing our best flushing and invalidating it.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
invalidate_dcache_all() could be used in different use-cases
and what is especially important most of those cases won't be
related to DMAed data to or from peripherals, i.e. we'll be doing
invalidation of data used purely by CPU cores.
Given that IOC engine only snoops data that goes through DMA
we need to care ourselves about data used only by CPU cores
and so remove dependency on IOC from invalidate_dcache_all()
and always do real invalidation.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
flush_dcache_all() is used in the very end of U-Boot self relocation
to write back all copied and then patched code and data to their
new location in the very end of available memory space.
Since that has nothing to do with IO (i.e. no external DMA happens
here) IOC won't help here and we need to write back data cache contents
manually.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
With release of ARC HS38 v2.1 new IO coherency engine could be built-in
ARC core. This hardware module ensures coherency between DMA-ed data
from peripherals and L2 cache.
With L2 and IOC enabled there's no overhead for L2 cache manual
maintenance which results in significantly improved IO bandwidth.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
ARC core could be configured with different L1 and L2 (AKA SLC) cache
line lengths. At least these values are possible and were really used:
32, 64 or 128 bytes.
Current implementation requires cache line to be selected upon U-Boot
configuration and then it will only work on matching hardware. Indeed
this is quite efficient because cache line length gets hardcoded during
code compilation. But OTOH it makes binary less portable.
With this commit we allow U-Boot to determine real L1 cache line length
early in runtime and use this value later on. This extends portability
of U-Boot binary a lot.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
[1] Align cache management functions to those in Linux kernel. I.e.:
a) Use the same functions for all cache ops (D$ Inv/Flush)
b) Split cache ops in 3 sub-functions: "before", "lineloop" and
"after". That way we may re-use "before" and "after" functions for
region and full cache ops.
[2] Implement full-functional L2 (SLC) management. Before SLC was
simply disabled early on boot. It's also possible to enable or disable
L2 cache from config utility.
[3] Disable/enable corresponding caches early on boot. So if U-Boot is
configured to use caches they will be used at all times (this is useful
in partucular for speed-up of relocation).
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
ARCv2 cores may have built-in SLC (System Level Cache, AKA L2-cache).
This change adds functions required for controlling SLC:
* slc_enable/disable
* slc_flush/invalidate
For now we just disable SLC to escape DMA coherency issues until either:
* SLC flush/invalidate is supported in DMA APIin U-Boot
* hardware DMA coherency is implemented (that might be board specific
so probably we'll need to have a separate Kconfig option for
controlling SLC explicitly)
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
always
Make both invalidate_icache_all() and invalidate_dcache_all() available
even if U-Boot is configured with CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF and/or
CONFIG_SYS_ICACHE_OFF.
This is useful because configuration of U-Boot may not match actual
hardware features. Real board may have cache(s) but for some reason we
may want to run U-Boot with cache(s) disabled (for example if some
peripherals work improperly with existing drivers if data cache is
enabled). So board may start with cache(s) enabled (that's the case for
ARC cores with built-in caches) but early in U-Boot we disable cache(s)
and make sure all contents of data cache gets flushed in RAM.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
This change allows to keep board description clean and minimalistic.
This is especially helpful if one board may house different CPUs with
different features.
It is applicable to both FPGA-based boards or those that have CPUs
mounted on interchnagable daughter-boards.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
"reset.c" and "cpu.c" have no architecture-specific code at all.
Others are applicable to either ARC CPU.
This change is a preparation to submission of ARCv2 architecture port.
Even though ARCv1 and ARCv2 ISAs are not binary compatible most of
built-in modules still have the same programming model - AUX registers
are mapped in the same addresses and hold the same data (new featues
extend existing ones).
So only low-level assembly code (start-up, interrupt handlers) is left
as CPU(actually ISA)-specific. This significantyl simplifies maintenance
of multiple CPUs/ISAs.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Igor Guryanov <guryanov@synopsys.com>
Some cache operations ({i|d}cache_{enable|disable|status} or
flush_dcache_all) are built and used even if CONFIG_SYS_{I|D}CACHE_OFF
is set.
This is required for force disable of caches on early boot.
What if something was executed before U-boot and enabled caches
(low-level bootloaders, previously run kernel etc.)?
But if CPU doesn't really have caches any attempt to access
cache-related AUX registers triggers instruction error exception.
So for convenience we'll try to avoid exceptions by checking if CPU
actually has caches (we check separately data and instruction cache
existence) at all.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Igor Guryanov <guryanov@synopsys.com>
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