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From: robherring2@gmail•com (Rob Herring)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: decompressor: clear SCTLR.A bit for v7 cores
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:43:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1349959402-24164-1-git-send-email-robherring2@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1210100939160.16518@xanadu.home>

From: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda•com>

With recent compilers and move to generic unaligned.h in commit d25c881
(ARM: 7493/1: use generic unaligned.h), unaligned accesses will be used
by the LZO decompressor on v7 cores. So we need to make sure unaligned
accesses are allowed by clearing the SCTLR A bit.

While v6 can support unaligned accesses, it is optional and current
compilers won't emit unaligned accesses. So we don't clear the A bit for
v6.

Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda•com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro•org>
Tested-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro•org>
---

The contents of this were already reviewed on this thread, so I sent this
to the patch system and this was Russell's reply:

> NAK for two reasons.
> 
> 1. It hasn't been on the list (I can't find a match for "clear SCTLR.A"
> in my mailbox)
> 
> 2. The behaviour of unaligned accesses vary depending on CPU.  Some
> fix-up the access, others load the word and then rotate it.  If we have
> decompressors which perform unaligned accesses, we need to fix this
> properly to avoid the CPU specific behaviour, rather than tweaking
> control bits to hide the problem.

I'm simply matching the behavior of the kernel itself. The A bit is cleared
for v7 kernels and compilers only generate unaligned accesses for v7.
Without this the initial state of the A bit is undefined as a bootloader
could have cleared it already. We should document the required state or set
it to what we want.

Rob

 arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
index bc67cbf..b2e30b8 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
@@ -654,6 +654,7 @@ __armv7_mmu_cache_on:
 #endif
 		mrc	p15, 0, r0, c1, c0, 0	@ read control reg
 		bic	r0, r0, #1 << 28	@ clear SCTLR.TRE
+		bic	r0, r0, #1 << 1		@ clear SCTLR.A
 		orr	r0, r0, #0x5000		@ I-cache enable, RR cache replacement
 		orr	r0, r0, #0x003c		@ write buffer
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
-- 
1.7.9.5

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-11 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-05  1:23 [PATCH v2 0/5] Use more asm-generic headers Rob Herring
2012-08-05  1:23 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] ARM: use generic version of identical asm headers Rob Herring
2012-08-05  1:23 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] ARM: add strstr declaration for decompressors Rob Herring
2012-08-05  1:23 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] ARM: use generic unaligned.h Rob Herring
2012-10-08 16:43   ` Shawn Guo
2012-10-08 20:34     ` Rob Herring
2012-10-08 23:28       ` Shawn Guo
2012-10-09  2:27         ` Rob Herring
2012-10-09  2:45           ` Shawn Guo
2012-10-09  4:01           ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-10-10 13:29             ` Rob Herring
2012-10-10 13:57               ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-10-11 12:43                 ` Rob Herring [this message]
2012-10-11 13:09                   ` [PATCH] ARM: decompressor: clear SCTLR.A bit for v7 cores Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-10-11 13:31                     ` Rob Herring
2012-10-11 13:41                       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-10-11 15:44                         ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-10-23 20:32                           ` Gregory CLEMENT
2012-10-25 12:07                             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-10-11 13:59                       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-10-11 15:58                         ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-10-25  9:34                   ` Johannes Stezenbach
2012-10-25 12:41                     ` Rob Herring
2012-10-25 13:30                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-10-25 14:16                       ` Johannes Stezenbach
2012-10-25 14:25                         ` Rob Herring
2012-10-25 15:02                           ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-10-25 15:08                           ` Johannes Stezenbach
2012-11-05 10:48                             ` Dave Martin
2012-11-05 11:13                               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-11-05 13:02                                 ` Dave Martin
2012-11-05 13:43                                   ` Johannes Stezenbach
2012-11-05 15:39                                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-11-05 16:13                                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-11-05 17:26                                       ` Dave Martin
2012-11-05 17:44                                         ` Rob Herring
2012-11-05 20:02                                           ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-11-05 17:46                                         ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-11-05 13:48                                 ` Rob Herring
2012-11-05 22:02                                   ` Michael Hope
2013-02-20 14:56                                     ` Johannes Stezenbach
2013-02-20 15:07                                       ` Johannes Stezenbach
2012-08-05  1:23 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] ARM: use generic termios.h Rob Herring
2012-08-05  1:24 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] ARM: convert asm/irqflags.h to use asm-generic/irqflags.h Rob Herring
2012-08-05  9:34 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] Use more asm-generic headers Thomas Petazzoni
2012-08-06 14:35 ` Arnd Bergmann

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