From: Andrew Jones <andrew.jones@linux.dev>
To: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com, thuth@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, nikos.nikoleris@arm.com
Subject: Re: [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 12/19] arm/arm64: assembler.h: Replace size with end address for dcache_by_line_op
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 11:37:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220920093739.owclltsryhpxkh6h@kamzik> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220809091558.14379-13-alexandru.elisei@arm.com>
On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 10:15:51AM +0100, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
> Commit b5f659be4775 ("arm/arm64: Remove dcache_line_size global
> variable") moved the dcache_by_line_op macro to assembler.h and changed
> it to take the size of the regions instead of the end address as
> parameter. This was done to keep the file in sync with the upstream
> Linux kernel implementation at the time.
>
> But in both places where the macro is used, the code has the start and
> end address of the region, and it has to compute the size to pass it to
> dcache_by_line_op. Then the macro itsef computes the end by adding size
> to start.
>
> Get rid of this massaging of parameters and change the macro to the end
> address as parameter directly.
>
> Besides slightly simplyfing the code by remove two unneeded arithmetic
> operations, this makes the macro compatible with the current upstream
> version of Linux (which was similarly changed to take the end address in
> commit 163d3f80695e ("arm64: dcache_by_line_op to take end parameter
> instead of size")), which will allow us to reuse (part of) the Linux C
> wrappers over the assembly macro.
>
> The change has been tested with the same snippet of code used to test
> commit 410b3bf09e76 ("arm/arm64: Perform dcache clean + invalidate after
> turning MMU off").
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>
> ---
> arm/cstart.S | 1 -
> arm/cstart64.S | 1 -
> lib/arm/asm/assembler.h | 11 +++++------
> lib/arm64/asm/assembler.h | 11 +++++------
> 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <andrew.jones@linux.dev>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-20 9:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-09 9:15 [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 00/19] arm/arm64: Rework cache maintenance at boot Alexandru Elisei
2022-08-09 9:15 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 01/19] Makefile: Define __ASSEMBLY__ for assembly files Alexandru Elisei
2022-08-09 12:36 ` Nikos Nikoleris
2022-09-20 8:11 ` Andrew Jones
2022-08-09 9:15 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 02/19] lib/alloc_phys: Initialize align_min Alexandru Elisei
2022-09-20 8:20 ` Andrew Jones
2022-08-09 9:15 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 03/19] lib/alloc_phys: Use phys_alloc_aligned_safe and rename it to memalign_early Alexandru Elisei
2022-09-20 8:27 ` Andrew Jones
2022-08-09 9:15 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 04/19] powerpc: Use the page allocator Alexandru Elisei
2022-08-09 9:15 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 05/19] lib/alloc_phys: Remove locking Alexandru Elisei
2022-09-20 8:45 ` Andrew Jones
2022-09-20 13:20 ` Alexandru Elisei
2022-09-20 14:59 ` Andrew Jones
2022-09-26 15:04 ` Alexandru Elisei
2022-08-09 9:15 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 06/19] lib/alloc_phys: Remove allocation accounting Alexandru Elisei
2022-09-20 8:40 ` Andrew Jones
2022-09-20 13:19 ` Alexandru Elisei
2022-08-09 9:15 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 07/19] arm/arm64: Mark the phys_end parameter as unused in setup_mmu() Alexandru Elisei
2022-09-20 8:58 ` Andrew Jones
2022-09-26 11:01 ` Alexandru Elisei
2022-08-09 9:15 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 08/19] arm/arm64: Use pgd_alloc() to allocate mmu_idmap Alexandru Elisei
2022-09-20 9:05 ` Andrew Jones
2022-08-09 9:15 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 09/19] arm/arm64: Zero secondary CPUs' stack Alexandru Elisei
2022-08-09 12:56 ` Nikos Nikoleris
2022-08-10 9:42 ` Alexandru Elisei
2022-08-10 10:00 ` Nikos Nikoleris
2022-09-20 9:24 ` Andrew Jones
2022-08-09 9:15 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 10/19] arm/arm64: Enable the MMU early Alexandru Elisei
2022-08-09 9:15 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 11/19] arm/arm64: Map the UART when creating the translation tables Alexandru Elisei
2022-08-09 9:15 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 12/19] arm/arm64: assembler.h: Replace size with end address for dcache_by_line_op Alexandru Elisei
2022-08-09 13:01 ` Nikos Nikoleris
2022-09-20 9:37 ` Andrew Jones [this message]
2022-08-09 9:15 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 13/19] arm: page.h: Add missing libcflat.h include Alexandru Elisei
2022-09-20 9:39 ` Andrew Jones
2022-09-26 11:02 ` Alexandru Elisei
2022-08-09 9:15 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 14/19] arm/arm64: Add C functions for doing cache maintenance Alexandru Elisei
2022-08-09 9:15 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 15/19] lib/alloc_phys: Add callback to perform " Alexandru Elisei
2022-08-09 9:15 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 16/19] arm/arm64: Allocate secondaries' stack using the page allocator Alexandru Elisei
2022-09-20 9:58 ` Andrew Jones
2022-08-09 9:15 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 17/19] arm/arm64: Configure secondaries' stack before enabling the MMU Alexandru Elisei
2022-08-09 9:15 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 18/19] arm/arm64: Perform dcache maintenance at boot Alexandru Elisei
2022-08-09 9:15 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 19/19] arm/arm64: Rework the cache maintenance in asm_mmu_disable Alexandru Elisei
2022-08-09 13:53 ` Nikos Nikoleris
2022-08-09 14:22 ` Alexandru Elisei
2022-08-09 15:53 ` Nikos Nikoleris
2022-08-09 16:53 ` Alexandru Elisei
2022-08-09 19:48 ` Nikos Nikoleris
2022-08-10 8:52 ` Alexandru Elisei
2022-08-09 9:49 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 00/19] arm/arm64: Rework cache maintenance at boot Alexandru Elisei
2023-11-05 10:16 ` Alexandru Elisei
2023-11-06 9:37 ` Shaoqin Huang
2023-11-07 9:01 ` Alexandru Elisei
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