u-boot-brain/arch/arc/include/asm/cache.h
Eugeniy Paltsev c27814be33 ARC: Flush & invalidate D$ with a single command
We don't implement separate flush_dcache_all() intentionally as
entire data cache invalidation is dangerous operation even if we flush
data cache right before invalidation.

There is the real example:
We may get stuck in the following code if we store any context (like
BLINK register) on stack in invalidate_dcache_all() function.

BLINK register is the register where return address is automatically saved
when we do function call with instructions like 'bl'.

void flush_dcache_all() {
	__dc_entire_op(OP_FLUSH);
	// Other code //
}

void invalidate_dcache_all() {
	__dc_entire_op(OP_INV);
	// Other code //
}

void foo(void) {
	flush_dcache_all();
	invalidate_dcache_all();
}

Now let's see what really happens during that code execution:

foo()
  |->> call flush_dcache_all
  	[return address is saved to BLINK register]
  	[push BLINK] (save to stack)              ![point 1]
  	|->> call __dc_entire_op(OP_FLUSH)
  		[return address is saved to BLINK register]
  		[flush L1 D$]
  		return [jump to BLINK]
  	<<------
  	[other flush_dcache_all code]
  	[pop BLINK] (get from stack)
  	return [jump to BLINK]
  <<------
  |->> call invalidate_dcache_all
  	[return address is saved to BLINK register]
  	[push BLINK] (save to stack)               ![point 2]
  	|->> call __dc_entire_op(OP_FLUSH)
  		[return address is saved to BLINK register]
  		[invalidate L1 D$]                 ![point 3]
  		// Oops!!!
  		// We lose return address from invalidate_dcache_all function:
  		// we save it to stack and invalidate L1 D$ after that!
  		return [jump to BLINK]
  	<<------
  	[other invalidate_dcache_all code]
  	[pop BLINK] (get from stack)
  	// we don't have this data in L1 dcache as we invalidated it in [point 3]
  	// so we get it from next memory level (for example DDR memory)
  	// but in the memory we have value which we save in [point 1], which
  	// is return address from flush_dcache_all function (instead of
  	// address from current invalidate_dcache_all function which we
  	// saved in [point 2] !)
  	return [jump to BLINK]
  <<------
  // As BLINK points to invalidate_dcache_all, we call it again and
  // loop forever.

Fortunately we may do flush and invalidation of D$ with a single one
instruction which automatically mitigates a situation described above.

And because invalidate_dcache_all() isn't used in common U-Boot code we
implement "flush and invalidate dcache all" instead.

Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev <Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
2018-03-21 17:06:49 +03:00

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/*
* Copyright (C) 2013-2014 Synopsys, Inc. All rights reserved.
*
* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
*/
#ifndef __ASM_ARC_CACHE_H
#define __ASM_ARC_CACHE_H
#include <config.h>
/*
* As of today we may handle any L1 cache line length right in software.
* For that essentially cache line length is a variable not constant.
* And to satisfy users of ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN we just use largest line length
* that may exist in either L1 or L2 (AKA SLC) caches on ARC.
*/
#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN 128
#if defined(ARC_MMU_ABSENT)
#define CONFIG_ARC_MMU_VER 0
#elif defined(CONFIG_ARC_MMU_V2)
#define CONFIG_ARC_MMU_VER 2
#elif defined(CONFIG_ARC_MMU_V3)
#define CONFIG_ARC_MMU_VER 3
#elif defined(CONFIG_ARC_MMU_V4)
#define CONFIG_ARC_MMU_VER 4
#endif
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
void cache_init(void);
void flush_n_invalidate_dcache_all(void);
#endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
#endif /* __ASM_ARC_CACHE_H */