This series adds an arm64 backend for memregion cache invalidation users
based on the Arm SMCCC cache clean+invalidate interface.
Per DEN0028, this interface targets systems where a Normal Cacheable
memory region can be modified in ways that are not handled by usual PE
coherency mechanisms, and where VA-based CMOs may be too slow or
insufficient for large ranges and/or system-cache implementations.
Representative use cases include device-backed memory state transitions
where stale CPU/system cache lines must be invalidated reliably (for
example secure erase, reset/offline flows, and dynamic memory
reconfiguration).
Patch 1 introduces the Arm SMCCC cache clean/invalidate function IDs and
transient return codes needed by callers [1].
Patch 2 adds a cache maintenance provider that:
- discovers SMCCC support and attributes at init time
- registers with the generic cache coherency framework used by
cpu_cache_invalidate_memregion()
- handles transient BUSY/RATE_LIMITED responses with bounded retries
This patch set does not add a software fallback path; when firmware does
not implement the SMCCC cache maintenance interface, the provider is not
registered and existing behavior is preserved.
Reference:
[1] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0028/latest
Changes since RFC:
- Dropped the RFC tag.
- Moved the provider from arch/arm64/mm to drivers/cache.
- Added a dedicated CONFIG_ARM_SMCCC_CACHE option under the existing
CACHEMAINT_FOR_HOTPLUG menu.
- Dropped the global-operation coalescing optimization.
- Dropped provider handling for SMCCC_RET_NOT_REQUIRED.
- Removed the unnecessary global provider pointer.
- Removed arm64_ prefixes from static provider-local names.
- Documented why these SMCCC Arch cache maintenance calls use SMC64.
- Anchored the SMCCC return-code comment to DEN0028 v1.7.
- Used fsleep() for retry backoff.
- Used unsigned long for retry delay values passed to fsleep().
- Skipped the final backoff sleep when no retry remains.
- Documented the bounded mutex hold time across the serialized retry
sequence.
- Added mutex_destroy() on the registration failure path.
Srirangan Madhavan (2):
arm64: smccc: add cache clean/invalidate IDs and return codes
cache: add SMCCC-backed cache invalidate provider
drivers/cache/Kconfig | 11 +++
drivers/cache/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/cache/arm_smccc_cache.c | 160 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/arm-smccc.h | 21 ++++-
tools/include/linux/arm-smccc.h | 21 ++++-
5 files changed, 210 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/cache/arm_smccc_cache.c
base-commit: 3b3bea6d4b9c162f9e555905d96b8c1da67ecd5b
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