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MIPS: Allow L2 prefetch to be configured via debugfs

When debugging or examining the performance of a system it can be useful
to examine the effect of L2 prefetching. Provide an optional debugfs
entry to allow a user to enable or disable L2 prefetching.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/11182/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

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arch/mips/Kconfig.debug
··· 149 149 150 150 endif # CPU_MIPSR6 151 151 152 + config SCACHE_DEBUGFS 153 + bool "L2 cache debugfs entries" 154 + depends on DEBUG_FS 155 + help 156 + Enable this to allow parts of the L2 cache configuration, such as 157 + whether or not prefetching is enabled, to be exposed to userland 158 + via debugfs. 159 + 160 + If unsure, say N. 161 + 152 162 endmenu
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arch/mips/mm/Makefile
··· 28 28 obj-$(CONFIG_R5000_CPU_SCACHE) += sc-r5k.o 29 29 obj-$(CONFIG_RM7000_CPU_SCACHE) += sc-rm7k.o 30 30 obj-$(CONFIG_MIPS_CPU_SCACHE) += sc-mips.o 31 + obj-$(CONFIG_SCACHE_DEBUGFS) += sc-debugfs.o
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arch/mips/mm/sc-debugfs.c
··· 1 + /* 2 + * Copyright (C) 2015 Imagination Technologies 3 + * Author: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> 4 + * 5 + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 6 + * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the 7 + * Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your 8 + * option) any later version. 9 + */ 10 + 11 + #include <asm/bcache.h> 12 + #include <asm/debug.h> 13 + #include <asm/uaccess.h> 14 + #include <linux/debugfs.h> 15 + #include <linux/init.h> 16 + 17 + static ssize_t sc_prefetch_read(struct file *file, char __user *user_buf, 18 + size_t count, loff_t *ppos) 19 + { 20 + bool enabled = bc_prefetch_is_enabled(); 21 + char buf[3]; 22 + 23 + buf[0] = enabled ? 'Y' : 'N'; 24 + buf[1] = '\n'; 25 + buf[2] = 0; 26 + 27 + return simple_read_from_buffer(user_buf, count, ppos, buf, 2); 28 + } 29 + 30 + static ssize_t sc_prefetch_write(struct file *file, 31 + const char __user *user_buf, 32 + size_t count, loff_t *ppos) 33 + { 34 + char buf[32]; 35 + ssize_t buf_size; 36 + bool enabled; 37 + int err; 38 + 39 + buf_size = min(count, sizeof(buf) - 1); 40 + if (copy_from_user(buf, user_buf, buf_size)) 41 + return -EFAULT; 42 + 43 + buf[buf_size] = '\0'; 44 + err = strtobool(buf, &enabled); 45 + if (err) 46 + return err; 47 + 48 + if (enabled) 49 + bc_prefetch_enable(); 50 + else 51 + bc_prefetch_disable(); 52 + 53 + return count; 54 + } 55 + 56 + static const struct file_operations sc_prefetch_fops = { 57 + .open = simple_open, 58 + .llseek = default_llseek, 59 + .read = sc_prefetch_read, 60 + .write = sc_prefetch_write, 61 + }; 62 + 63 + static int __init sc_debugfs_init(void) 64 + { 65 + struct dentry *dir, *file; 66 + 67 + if (!mips_debugfs_dir) 68 + return -ENODEV; 69 + 70 + dir = debugfs_create_dir("l2cache", mips_debugfs_dir); 71 + if (IS_ERR(dir)) 72 + return PTR_ERR(dir); 73 + 74 + file = debugfs_create_file("prefetch", S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, dir, 75 + NULL, &sc_prefetch_fops); 76 + if (IS_ERR(file)) 77 + return PTR_ERR(file); 78 + 79 + return 0; 80 + } 81 + late_initcall(sc_debugfs_init);