[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] ARM: Add workaround for Cortex-A9 errata 761320

Nitin Garg nitin.garg at freescale.com
Wed Apr 2 14:44:58 CEST 2014


Hi Dirk,

There is no revision and variant in this cpu_init_cp15 function. I think this function is common unlike kernel code which was cortex specific.

Regards,
Nitin Garg


-----Original Message-----
From: Dirk Behme [mailto:dirk.behme at de.bosch.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 1:46 AM
To: Garg Nitin-B37173
Cc: trini at ti.com; Estevam Fabio-R49496; u-boot at lists.denx.de
Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] ARM: Add workaround for Cortex-A9 errata 761320

On 02.04.2014 05:33, nitin.garg at freescale.com wrote:
> From: Nitin Garg <nitin.garg at freescale.com>
>
> Full cache line writes to the same memory region from at least two 
> processors might deadlock the processor. Exists on r1, r2, r3 
> revisions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nitin Garg <nitin.garg at freescale.com>
> ---
>   README                     |    1 +
>   arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S |    5 +++++
>   2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/README b/README
> index a496c65..b7c0f68 100644
> --- a/README
> +++ b/README
> @@ -567,6 +567,7 @@ The following options need to be configured:
>   		CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_743622
>   		CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_751472
>   		CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_794072
> +		CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_761320
>
>   		If set, the workarounds for these ARM errata are applied early
>   		during U-Boot startup. Note that these options force the diff 
> --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S index 
> b87a378..1229476 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S
> @@ -227,6 +227,11 @@ ENTRY(cpu_init_cp15)
>   	orr	r0, r0, #1 << 4		@ set bit #4
>   	mcr	p15, 0, r0, c15, c0, 1	@ write diagnostic register
>   #endif
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_761320
> +	mrc	p15, 0, r0, c15, c0, 1	@ read diagnostic register
> +	orr	r0, r0, #1 << 21	@ set bit #21
> +	mcr	p15, 0, r0, c15, c0, 1	@ write diagnostic register
> +#endif

Is there any reason why you dropped the check for r4p0

cmp	r6, #0x40	@ present prior to r4p0

which you still had in

http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg319223.html

?

Best regards

Dirk





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