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From: t.figa@samsung•com (Tomasz Figa)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] ARM: save/restore diagnostic register on Cortex-A9 suspend/resume
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 18:28:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53A9A746.6080200@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1403432119-1409-1-git-send-email-shawn.guo@freescale.com>

Hi Shawn,

On 22.06.2014 12:15, Shawn Guo wrote:
> The CP15 diagnostic register holds ARM errata bits on Cortex-A9, so it
> needs to be saved/restored on suspend/resume.  Otherwise, the
> effectiveness of errata workaround gets lost together with diagnostic
> register bit across suspend/resume cycle.
> 
> The patch adds a couple of Cortex-A9 specific suspend and resume
> functions to handle the diagnostic register across suspend/resume cycle.

[snip]

> +ENTRY(cpu_ca9mp_do_resume)
> +	ldmia	r0!, {r4}
> +	mcr	p15, 0, r4, c15, c0, 1  @ Diagnostic register

What about platforms running in non-secure mode in which the register is
read-only?

Best regards,
Tomasz

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-24 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-22 10:15 [PATCH v2] ARM: save/restore diagnostic register on Cortex-A9 suspend/resume Shawn Guo
2014-06-24 16:28 ` Tomasz Figa [this message]
2014-06-24 16:33   ` Will Deacon
2014-06-24 17:40     ` Tomasz Figa
2014-06-24 18:17       ` Will Deacon
2014-07-01 14:44       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-07-01 16:26         ` Tomasz Figa
2014-07-02 12:34           ` Will Deacon
2014-07-02 14:01             ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2014-07-02 14:26               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-07-04  3:31                 ` Shawn Guo

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