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From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Tue, 1 Nov 2022 13:42:37 +0100
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 2/2] soc: renesas: Add L2 cache management for
 RZ/Five SoC
To:     Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com>
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Hi Prabhakar,

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 12:02 AM Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com>
>
> On the AX45MP core, cache coherency is a specification option so it may
> not be supported. In this case DMA will fail. As a workaround, firstly we
> allocate a global dma coherent pool from which DMA allocations are taken
> and marked as non-cacheable + bufferable using the PMA region as specified
> in the device tree. Synchronization callbacks are implemented to
> synchronize when doing DMA transactions.
>
> The Andes AX45MP core has a Programmable Physical Memory Attributes (PMA)
> block that allows dynamic adjustment of memory attributes in the runtime.
> It contains a configurable amount of PMA entries implemented as CSR
> registers to control the attributes of memory locations in interest.
>
> Below are the memory attributes supported:
> * Device, Non-bufferable
> * Device, bufferable
> * Memory, Non-cacheable, Non-bufferable
> * Memory, Non-cacheable, Bufferable
> * Memory, Write-back, No-allocate
> * Memory, Write-back, Read-allocate
> * Memory, Write-back, Write-allocate
> * Memory, Write-back, Read and Write-allocate
>
> This patch adds support to configure the memory attributes of the memory
> regions as passed from the l2 cache node and exposes the cache management
> ops.
>
> More info about PMA (section 10.3):
> http://www.andestech.com/wp-content/uploads/AX45MP-1C-Rev.-5.0.0-Datasheet.pdf
>
> This feature is based on the work posted [0] by Vincent Chen
> <vincentc@andestech.com> for the Andes AndeStart RISC-V CPU.
>
> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1540982130-28248-1-git-send-email-vincentc@andestech.com/
>
> Signed-off-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com>

Thanks for your patch!

> --- a/arch/riscv/mm/dma-noncoherent.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/mm/dma-noncoherent.c
> @@ -24,13 +24,25 @@ void arch_sync_dma_for_device(phys_addr_t paddr, size_t size,
>
>         switch (dir) {
>         case DMA_TO_DEVICE:
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ERRATA_THEAD_CMO
>                 ALT_CMO_OP(clean, vaddr, size, riscv_cbom_block_size);
> +#elif CONFIG_AX45MP_L2_CACHE

"#elif defined(CONFIG_AX45MP_L2_CACHE)" (everywhere)

Else it may fail with:

    error: "CONFIG_AX45MP_L2_CACHE" is not defined, evaluates to 0
[-Werror=undef]


> +               ALT_CMO_OP(ax45mp_cpu_dma_wb_range, vaddr, size, 0x0);
> +#endif

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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