From: gregory.clement@free-electrons•com (Gregory CLEMENT)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 11/17] ARM: mvebu: reserve the first 10 KB of each memory bank for suspend/resume
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 11:09:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5458A5CC.8090409@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1414151970-6626-12-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Hi Thomas,
On 24/10/2014 13:59, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> When going out of suspend to RAM, the Marvell EBU platforms go through
> the bootloader, which re-configures the DRAM controller. To achieve
> this, the bootloader executes a piece of code called the "DDR3
> training code". It does some reads/writes to the memory to find out
> the optimal timings for the memory chip being used.
>
> This has the nasty side effect that the first 10 KB of each DRAM
> chip-select are overwritten by the bootloader when exiting the suspend
> to RAM state.
>
> Therefore, this commit implements the ->reserve() hook for the 'struct
> machine_desc' used on Armada XP, to reserve the 10 KB of each DRAM
> chip-select using the memblock API.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons•com>
> ---
> arch/arm/mach-mvebu/board-v7.c | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+)
It is unfortunate to put these "holes" in the memory but it is a design constraint.
However, your solution is nice and very well contained however.
Acked-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons•com>
Thanks,
Gregory
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-04 10:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-24 11:59 [PATCH 00/17] Suspend to RAM support for Armada XP Thomas Petazzoni
2014-10-24 11:59 ` [PATCH 01/17] Documentation: dt-bindings: minimal documentation for MVEBU SDRAM controller Thomas Petazzoni
2014-11-03 17:05 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-10-24 11:59 ` [PATCH 02/17] ARM: mvebu: enable strex backoff delay Thomas Petazzoni
2014-11-03 17:08 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-10-24 11:59 ` [PATCH 03/17] irqchip: irq-armada-370-xp: use proper return value for ->set_affinity() Thomas Petazzoni
2014-11-03 17:20 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-11-07 4:09 ` Jason Cooper
2014-10-24 11:59 ` [PATCH 04/17] irqchip: irq-armada-370-xp: suspend/resume support Thomas Petazzoni
2014-11-03 17:38 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-11-13 16:32 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-10-24 11:59 ` [PATCH 05/17] clocksource: time-armada-370-xp: add " Thomas Petazzoni
2014-11-03 17:45 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-10-24 11:59 ` [PATCH 06/17] gpio: mvebu: " Thomas Petazzoni
2014-10-24 16:30 ` David Cohen
2014-10-24 20:45 ` Andrew Lunn
2014-10-27 5:27 ` Alexandre Courbot
2014-10-27 17:45 ` David Cohen
2014-10-31 7:00 ` Linus Walleij
2014-10-31 7:52 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-10-31 8:14 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-11-03 13:26 ` Linus Walleij
2014-11-03 13:29 ` Linus Walleij
2014-11-03 17:53 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-11-03 21:21 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-10-24 11:59 ` [PATCH 07/17] bus: mvebu-mbus: " Thomas Petazzoni
2014-11-03 18:08 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-11-03 21:20 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-10-24 11:59 ` [PATCH 08/17] bus: mvebu-mbus: provide a mechanism to save SDRAM window configuration Thomas Petazzoni
2014-11-04 9:17 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-10-24 11:59 ` [PATCH 09/17] clk: mvebu: add suspend/resume for gatable clocks Thomas Petazzoni
2014-11-04 9:32 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-10-24 11:59 ` [PATCH 10/17] ARM: mvebu: implement suspend/resume support for Armada XP Thomas Petazzoni
2014-11-04 10:00 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-11-13 17:00 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-10-24 11:59 ` [PATCH 11/17] ARM: mvebu: reserve the first 10 KB of each memory bank for suspend/resume Thomas Petazzoni
2014-11-04 10:09 ` Gregory CLEMENT [this message]
2014-10-24 11:59 ` [PATCH 12/17] ARM: mvebu: Armada XP GP specific suspend/resume code Thomas Petazzoni
2014-10-24 14:20 ` Andrew Lunn
2014-10-24 14:28 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-10-24 14:51 ` Andrew Lunn
2014-10-27 12:51 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-10-27 14:19 ` Andrew Lunn
2014-10-27 14:40 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-10-27 14:59 ` Andrew Lunn
2014-10-27 15:12 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-10-27 15:15 ` Andrew Lunn
2014-11-10 13:53 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-10-24 11:59 ` [PATCH 13/17] ARM: mvebu: make sure MMU is disabled in armada_370_xp_cpu_resume Thomas Petazzoni
2014-11-10 14:05 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-10-24 11:59 ` [PATCH 14/17] ARM: mvebu: synchronize secondary CPU clocks on resume Thomas Petazzoni
2014-11-10 14:12 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-10-24 11:59 ` [PATCH 15/17] ARM: mvebu: add suspend/resume DT information for Armada XP GP Thomas Petazzoni
2014-11-10 14:14 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-10-24 11:59 ` [PATCH 16/17] ARM: mvebu: adjust mbus controller description on Armada 370/XP Thomas Petazzoni
2014-11-10 14:15 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-10-24 11:59 ` [PATCH 17/17] ARM: mvebu: add SDRAM controller description for Armada XP Thomas Petazzoni
2014-11-10 14:25 ` Gregory CLEMENT
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