[U-Boot] [PATCH] arm: socfpga: dm: Fix DM initialization failure after warm reset

[Simon Glass]

Hi Marek,

On 29 August 2015 at 01:56, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
>
> On Saturday, August 29, 2015 at 01:21:31 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 28 August 2015 at 02:41, Jian Luo <Jian.Luo4 at boschrexroth.de> wrote:
> > > gd->dm_root is not cleared in SPL after warm reset.
> > > This might cause DM initilazation failure.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jian Luo <jian.luo4 at boschrexroth.de>
> > > ---
> > >
> > >  arch/arm/mach-socfpga/spl.c | 6 ++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/spl.c b/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/spl.c
> > > index 13ec24b..59fe1f2 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/spl.c
> > > +++ b/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/spl.c
> > > @@ -181,5 +181,11 @@ void board_init_f(ulong dummy)
> > >
> > >         /* Configure simple malloc base pointer into RAM. */
> > >         gd->malloc_base = CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE + (1024 * 1024);
> > >
> > > +       /*
> > > +        * gd->dm_root might contain non-zero value after warm reset.
> > > +        * Clear it to avoid dm_init error
> > > +        */
> > > +       gd->dm_root = NULL;
> > > +
> > >
> > >         board_init_r(NULL, 0);
> > >
> > >  }
> > >
> > > --
> > > 1.9.1
> >
> > This does not look like the root cause to me. global_data is zeroed by
> > crt0.S if CONFIG_SPL_FRAMEWORK is set, which it seems to be for
> > socfpga.
> >
> > What boot path does 'warm reset' take?
>
> Warm reset resets the CPU core(s) and jumps to 0x0 in SRAM (without re-reading
> anything from the boot media).

Does that mean it skips crt0.S? How come global_data is not zeroed there?

>
> > Also BTW it would be better if board_init_f() returned rather than
> > calling board_init_r() directly.
>
> I'm all for it, it'd trim down the stack utilisation slightly too.
>

Sound good.

Regards,
Simon