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* [PATCH v1 0/2] Add SMCCC cache clean/invalidate provider
@ 2026-06-02  8:21 Srirangan Madhavan
  2026-06-02  8:21 ` [PATCH v1 1/2] arm64: smccc: add cache clean/invalidate IDs and return codes Srirangan Madhavan
  2026-06-02  8:21 ` [PATCH v1 2/2] cache: add SMCCC-backed cache invalidate provider Srirangan Madhavan
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Srirangan Madhavan @ 2026-06-02  8:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Mark Rutland, Lorenzo Pieralisi, Sudeep Holla, Conor Dooley,
	Jonathan Cameron
  Cc: Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Dan Williams, Thierry Reding,
	Jonathan Hunter, linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel, linux-tegra,
	Srirangan Madhavan

This series adds an arm64 backend for memregion cache invalidation users
based on the Arm SMCCC cache clean+invalidate interface.

Per DEN0028, this interface targets systems where a Normal Cacheable
memory region can be modified in ways that are not handled by usual PE
coherency mechanisms, and where VA-based CMOs may be too slow or
insufficient for large ranges and/or system-cache implementations.

Representative use cases include device-backed memory state transitions
where stale CPU/system cache lines must be invalidated reliably (for
example secure erase, reset/offline flows, and dynamic memory
reconfiguration).

Patch 1 introduces the Arm SMCCC cache clean/invalidate function IDs and
transient return codes needed by callers [1].

Patch 2 adds a cache maintenance provider that:
- discovers SMCCC support and attributes at init time
- registers with the generic cache coherency framework used by
  cpu_cache_invalidate_memregion()
- handles transient BUSY/RATE_LIMITED responses with bounded retries

This patch set does not add a software fallback path; when firmware does
not implement the SMCCC cache maintenance interface, the provider is not
registered and existing behavior is preserved.

Reference:
[1] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0028/latest

Changes since RFC:
- Dropped the RFC tag.
- Moved the provider from arch/arm64/mm to drivers/cache.
- Added a dedicated CONFIG_ARM_SMCCC_CACHE option under the existing
  CACHEMAINT_FOR_HOTPLUG menu.
- Dropped the global-operation coalescing optimization.
- Dropped provider handling for SMCCC_RET_NOT_REQUIRED.
- Removed the unnecessary global provider pointer.
- Removed arm64_ prefixes from static provider-local names.
- Documented why these SMCCC Arch cache maintenance calls use SMC64.
- Anchored the SMCCC return-code comment to DEN0028 v1.7.
- Used fsleep() for retry backoff.
- Used unsigned long for retry delay values passed to fsleep().
- Skipped the final backoff sleep when no retry remains.
- Documented the bounded mutex hold time across the serialized retry
  sequence.
- Added mutex_destroy() on the registration failure path.

Srirangan Madhavan (2):
  arm64: smccc: add cache clean/invalidate IDs and return codes
  cache: add SMCCC-backed cache invalidate provider

 drivers/cache/Kconfig           |  11 +++
 drivers/cache/Makefile          |   1 +
 drivers/cache/arm_smccc_cache.c | 160 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/arm-smccc.h       |  21 ++++-
 tools/include/linux/arm-smccc.h |  21 ++++-
 5 files changed, 210 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/cache/arm_smccc_cache.c

base-commit: 3b3bea6d4b9c162f9e555905d96b8c1da67ecd5b
-- 
2.43.0


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