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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale•com>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale•com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB•COM>, linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/fsl-booke: Work around erratum A-006958
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 17:15:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1373926558.8183.317@snotra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1373907234.8183.297@snotra> (from scottwood@freescale.com on Mon Jul 15 11:53:54 2013)

On 07/15/2013 11:53:54 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On 07/15/2013 03:45:36 AM, David Laight wrote:
>> Also, if the high word changes, there is no need to loop.
>> Just return the second value with a low word of zero
>> (the returned count happened while the function was active).
>=20
> That would be more complicated than looping.

That said, it's since been confirmed internally that the low word =20
should always be zero when this happens, so we could share the Cell =20
workaround code -- as long as we do something special in the timebase =20
sync code so that we don't get stuck if the timebase happens to be =20
frozen with TBL=3D=3D0.  This would avoid the need for scratch registers =20
(other than CR0).

-Scott=

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-15 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-13  1:03 [PATCH] powerpc/fsl-booke: Work around erratum A-006958 Scott Wood
2013-07-15  6:03 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-07-15 16:55   ` Scott Wood
2013-07-15  8:45 ` David Laight
2013-07-15 16:53   ` Scott Wood
2013-07-15 22:15     ` Scott Wood [this message]
2013-07-16  8:28       ` David Laight
2013-07-16 18:16         ` Scott Wood

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