[PATCH 3/5] ARM64: Add Needs software prefetching cap

From	Andrew Pinski <apinski@cavium.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH 3/5] ARM64: Add Needs software prefetching cap
Date	2016-01-13 08:20 +0100
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On ThunderX T88 pass 1 and pass 2 does not include
a hardware prefetching so the memory copying
functions are slower than necessary.  This adds
a cpu feature for this.
The next patch will add the use in both copy_page
and copy_from_user/copy_to_user.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Pinski <apinski@cavium.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h |    3 ++-
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c      |    6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
index 92aaac6..784bc63 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
@@ -32,8 +32,9 @@
 #define ARM64_WORKAROUND_CAVIUM_23154		6
 #define ARM64_WORKAROUND_834220			7
 #define ARM64_WORKAROUND_CAVIUM_27456		8
+#define ARM64_NEEDS_PREFETCH_128		9
 
-#define ARM64_NCAPS				9
+#define ARM64_NCAPS				10
 
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index b0ee60e..13cda09 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -651,6 +651,12 @@ static const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities arm64_features[] = {
 		.min_field_value = 2,
 	},
 #endif /* CONFIG_AS_LSE && CONFIG_ARM64_LSE_ATOMICS */
+	{
+		.desc = "Needs prefetching (128 byte cache line) for copying: ThunderX T88 pass 1.x and 2.x",
+		.capability = ARM64_NEEDS_PREFETCH_128,
+		MIDR_RANGE(MIDR_THUNDERX, 0,
+			   (1 << MIDR_VARIANT_SHIFT) | MIDR_REVISION_MASK),
+	},
 	{},
 };
 
-- 
1.7.2.5

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[PATCHv2 0/4] ARM64: Improve copy_page and copy_template for ThunderX Andrew Pinski <apinski@cavium.com> - 2016-01-13 08:10 +0100
  [PATCH 1/5] ARM64: Support midr detected cpufeature Andrew Pinski <apinski@cavium.com> - 2016-01-13 08:10 +0100
  [PATCH 2/5] ARM64 Improve copy_page for 128 byte cache line Andrew Pinski <apinski@cavium.com> - 2016-01-13 08:20 +0100
  [PATCH 5/5] ARM64: Patch in prefetching in copy_template Andrew Pinski <apinski@cavium.com> - 2016-01-13 08:20 +0100
  [PATCH 3/5] ARM64: Add Needs software prefetching cap Andrew Pinski <apinski@cavium.com> - 2016-01-13 08:20 +0100

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