ARM: 6741/1: errata: pl310 cache sync operation may be faulty

The effect of cache sync operation is to drain the store buffer and
wait for all internal buffers to be empty. In normal conditions, store
buffer is able to merge the normal memory writes within its 32-byte
data buffers.  Due to this erratum present in r3p0, the effect of cache
sync operation on the store buffer still remains when the operation
completes. This means that the store buffer is always asked to drain
and this prevents it from merging any further writes.

This can severely affect performance on the write traffic esp. on
Normal memory NC one.

The proposed workaround is to replace the normal offset of cache sync
operation(0x730) by another offset targeting an unmapped PL310
register 0x740.

Signed-off-by: srinidhi kasagar <srinidhi.kasagar@stericsson.com>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/hardware/cache-l2x0.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/hardware/cache-l2x0.h
index 5aeec1e1735..16bd4803158 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/hardware/cache-l2x0.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/hardware/cache-l2x0.h
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 #define L2X0_RAW_INTR_STAT              0x21C
 #define L2X0_INTR_CLEAR                 0x220
 #define L2X0_CACHE_SYNC                 0x730
+#define L2X0_DUMMY_REG                  0x740
 #define L2X0_INV_LINE_PA                0x770
 #define L2X0_INV_WAY                    0x77C
 #define L2X0_CLEAN_LINE_PA              0x7B0