From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>,
Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sh: boot: Remove sh5 cache handling
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 09:49:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdW5jMg4K454S=jQkU7EZUXyKYetqFVejL0ft1uxAJQpGQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d5f53c4c490d0058956f6a501191107c4b148720.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Hi Adrian,
On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 9:46 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 2024-04-24 at 13:54 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > Commit 37744feebc086908 ("sh: remove sh5 support") in v5.8 forgot to
> > remove the sh5 cache handling.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
> > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
> > --- a/arch/sh/boot/compressed/cache.c
> > +++ /dev/null
> > @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
> > -// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > -int cache_control(unsigned int command)
> > -{
> > - volatile unsigned int *p = (volatile unsigned int *) 0x80000000;
> > - int i;
> > -
> > - for (i = 0; i < (32 * 1024); i += 32) {
> > - (void)*p;
> > - p += (32 / sizeof(int));
> > - }
> > -
> > - return 0;
> > -}
> Interesting, looking at boot/compressed/cache.c, it seems that the whole code
> is actually a no-op and does nothing but increasing a pointer. So I agree we
> should just delete it.
It is not a no-op: it also reads from memory, to load new data in
the cache, and evicting the old data.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-29 7:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-24 11:54 [PATCH] sh: boot: Remove sh5 cache handling Geert Uytterhoeven
2024-04-29 7:46 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2024-04-29 7:49 ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2024-04-29 7:52 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2024-04-29 8:06 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2024-04-29 8:22 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2024-04-29 8:29 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2024-05-02 13:50 ` Yoshinori Sato
2024-05-01 9:26 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2024-05-02 7:25 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2024-05-02 10:32 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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