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[net-next,1/4] arm64: barrier: add DGH macros to control memory accesses merging

Message ID 1627614864-50824-2-git-send-email-huangguangbin2@huawei.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series net: hns3: add support for TX push | expand

Commit Message

Guangbin Huang July 30, 2021, 3:14 a.m. UTC
From: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com>

DGH prohibits merging memory accesses with Normal-NC or Device-GRE
attributes before the hint instruction with any memory accesses
appearing after the hint instruction. Provide macros to expose it to the
arch code.

Signed-off-by: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Cheng Jian <cj.chengjian@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Yufeng Mo <moyufeng@huawei.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 7 +++++++
 arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h   | 1 +
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

Comments

Catalin Marinas July 30, 2021, 9:39 a.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 11:14:21AM +0800, Guangbin Huang wrote:
> From: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com>
> 
> DGH prohibits merging memory accesses with Normal-NC or Device-GRE
> attributes before the hint instruction with any memory accesses
> appearing after the hint instruction. Provide macros to expose it to the
> arch code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cheng Jian <cj.chengjian@huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yufeng Mo <moyufeng@huawei.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 7 +++++++
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h   | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
> index 89faca0e740d..5a3348b5e9f3 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
> @@ -90,6 +90,13 @@
>  	.endm
>  
>  /*
> + * Data gathering hint
> + */
> +	.macro	dgh
> +	hint	#6
> +	.endm

Do we need this macro? It doesn't seem to be used anywhere.
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
index 89faca0e740d..5a3348b5e9f3 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
@@ -90,6 +90,13 @@ 
 	.endm
 
 /*
+ * Data gathering hint
+ */
+	.macro	dgh
+	hint	#6
+	.endm
+
+/*
  * RAS Error Synchronization barrier
  */
 	.macro  esb
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h
index 451e11e5fd23..02e1735706d2 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ 
 #define dmb(opt)	asm volatile("dmb " #opt : : : "memory")
 #define dsb(opt)	asm volatile("dsb " #opt : : : "memory")
 
+#define dgh()		asm volatile("hint #6" : : : "memory")
 #define psb_csync()	asm volatile("hint #17" : : : "memory")
 #define tsb_csync()	asm volatile("hint #18" : : : "memory")
 #define csdb()		asm volatile("hint #20" : : : "memory")