Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: qcom: add missing cache node for cpu1

[Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@oss.qualcomm.com>]

On 9.01.2025 4:24 PM, Neil Armstrong wrote:
> Add the missing l2-cache node for the cpu1
> 
> Fixes: 20eb2057b3e4 ("arm64: dts: qcom: sm8650: change labels to lower-case")
> Fixes: d2350377997f ("arm64: dts: qcom: add initial SM8650 dtsi")
> Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>
> ---

subject: missing `sm8650:`

>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sm8650.dtsi | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sm8650.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sm8650.dtsi
> index 86684cb9a9325618ddb74458621cf4bbdc1cc0d1..832f3a2c400e8348847bc24b27397e2a0dc08db8 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sm8650.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sm8650.dtsi
> @@ -119,6 +119,13 @@ cpu1: cpu@100 {
>  			qcom,freq-domain = <&cpufreq_hw 0>;
>  
>  			#cooling-cells = <2>;
> +
> +			l2_100: l2-cache {
> +				compatible = "cache";
> +				cache-level = <2>;
> +				cache-unified;
> +				next-level-cache = <&l3_0>;
> +			};
>  		};

You likely wanted to hook up this new node to CPU1 as well.

Reading some Arm docs [1], it seems like with A520 specifically, both shared
and unique cache slices are permitted, depending on whether they're
implemented as single- or dual-core complexes (not to be confused with
multi-threading)

[2] suggests CA720s always have their own cache pools

In 8650's case, the slowest cluster has a shared L2 cache, whereas cores 2-7
have their own pools, so this patch is incorrect.

Konrad

[1] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/102517/0004/The-Cortex-A520--core/Cortex-A520--core-configuration-options
[2] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/102530/0001/L2-memory-system