arm64: prefetch: add alternative pattern for CPUs without a prefetcher

Most CPUs have a hardware prefetcher which generally performs better
without explicit prefetch instructions issued by software, however
some CPUs (e.g. Cavium ThunderX) rely solely on explicit prefetch
instructions.

This patch adds an alternative pattern (ARM64_HAS_NO_HW_PREFETCH) to
allow our library code to make use of explicit prefetch instructions
during things like copy routines only when the CPU does not have the
capability to perform the prefetching itself.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Pinski <apinski@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index 5c90aa490a2b..3615d7d7c9af 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -621,6 +621,18 @@ static bool has_useable_gicv3_cpuif(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry)
 	return has_sre;
 }
 
+static bool has_no_hw_prefetch(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry)
+{
+	u32 midr = read_cpuid_id();
+	u32 rv_min, rv_max;
+
+	/* Cavium ThunderX pass 1.x and 2.x */
+	rv_min = 0;
+	rv_max = (1 << MIDR_VARIANT_SHIFT) | MIDR_REVISION_MASK;
+
+	return MIDR_IS_CPU_MODEL_RANGE(midr, MIDR_THUNDERX, rv_min, rv_max);
+}
+
 static const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities arm64_features[] = {
 	{
 		.desc = "GIC system register CPU interface",
@@ -651,6 +663,11 @@ static const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities arm64_features[] = {
 		.min_field_value = 2,
 	},
 #endif /* CONFIG_AS_LSE && CONFIG_ARM64_LSE_ATOMICS */
+	{
+		.desc = "Software prefetching using PRFM",
+		.capability = ARM64_HAS_NO_HW_PREFETCH,
+		.matches = has_no_hw_prefetch,
+	},
 	{},
 };