From: santosh.shilimkar@ti•com (Santosh Shilimkar)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 13/15] ARM: CCI: ensure powerdown-time data is flushed from cache
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 10:55:27 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <510F4647.6070505@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1302031327450.6300@xanadu.home>
On Sunday 03 February 2013 11:59 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Feb 2013, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
>
>> On Sunday 03 February 2013 03:53 AM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>>> On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tuesday 29 January 2013 01:21 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>>>>> From: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro•org>
[..]
>>>>> This patch adds the appropriate flushing to the CCI driver to ensure
>>>>> that the relevant data is available in RAM ahead of time.
>>>>>
>>>>> Because this creates a dependency on arch-specific cacheflushing
>>>>> functions, this patch also makes ARM_CCI depend on ARM.
>>>>>
>>>> You should do that otherwise to avoid other arch building this
>>>> driver for random builds and breaking their builds.
>>>
>>> Before this patch the driver was buildable on any architecture. That's
>>> why this dependency is added only in this patch.
>>>
>> I was just trying to counter the reasoning in the changelog which says
>> dependency is added because of arch specific cache flushing function.
>> Meaning even without that ARM dependency should be in place to avoid
>> driver getting build for other archs.
>
> Well, some upstream maintainers' opinion is that you should not put
> artificial dependencies on a specific architecture if a driver is
> buildable on any architecture, even if the built driver is of no use to
> those other architectures.
>
I see. I have seen some complaint about not adding the arch dependency.
Anyways, the patch has the dependency set with ARM and hence its
non-issue.
Regards,
Santosh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-04 5:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-29 7:50 [PATCH v3 00/15] multi-cluster power management Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-29 7:50 ` [PATCH v3 01/15] ARM: multi-cluster PM: secondary kernel entry code Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-31 15:45 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-29 7:50 ` [PATCH v3 02/15] ARM: mcpm: introduce the CPU/cluster power API Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-31 15:55 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-29 7:50 ` [PATCH v3 03/15] ARM: mcpm: introduce helpers for platform coherency exit/setup Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-31 16:08 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-31 17:16 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-01 5:10 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-02-01 17:26 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-29 7:50 ` [PATCH v3 04/15] ARM: mcpm: Add baremetal voting mutexes Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-01 5:29 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-29 7:51 ` [PATCH v3 05/15] ARM: mcpm_head.S: vlock-based first man election Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-01 5:34 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-29 7:51 ` [PATCH v3 06/15] ARM: mcpm: generic SMP secondary bringup and hotplug support Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-29 20:38 ` Rob Herring
2013-02-01 5:38 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-29 7:51 ` [PATCH v3 07/15] ARM: vexpress: Select the correct SMP operations at run-time Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-29 15:43 ` Jon Medhurst (Tixy)
2013-01-29 19:26 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-01 5:41 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-02-01 17:28 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-29 7:51 ` [PATCH v3 08/15] ARM: introduce common set_auxcr/get_auxcr functions Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-01 5:44 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-29 7:51 ` [PATCH v3 09/15] ARM: vexpress: introduce DCSCB support Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-01 5:50 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-29 7:51 ` [PATCH v3 10/15] ARM: vexpress/dcscb: add CPU use counts to the power up/down API implementation Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-01 5:53 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-29 7:51 ` [PATCH v3 11/15] ARM: vexpress/dcscb: do not hardcode number of CPUs per cluster Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-01 5:57 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-02-01 17:24 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-02 6:54 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-29 7:51 ` [PATCH v3 12/15] drivers/bus: add ARM CCI support Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-01 6:01 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-29 7:51 ` [PATCH v3 13/15] ARM: CCI: ensure powerdown-time data is flushed from cache Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-01 6:13 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-02-02 22:23 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-03 10:07 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-02-03 18:29 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-04 5:25 ` Santosh Shilimkar [this message]
2013-01-29 7:51 ` [PATCH v3 14/15] ARM: vexpress/dcscb: handle platform coherency exit/setup and CCI Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-29 10:46 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2013-01-29 18:42 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-30 17:27 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2013-02-01 6:15 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-29 7:51 ` [PATCH v3 15/15] ARM: vexpress/dcscb: probe via device tree Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-29 21:01 ` Rob Herring
2013-01-29 21:41 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-30 12:22 ` Achin Gupta
2013-01-30 17:43 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-31 10:54 ` Dave Martin
2013-02-04 4:39 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-04 14:24 ` [PATCH v3 00/15] multi-cluster power management Will Deacon
2013-02-04 20:59 ` Nicolas Pitre
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