[U-Boot] [PATCH 11/11] imx: mx7d: isolate resources to domain 0 for A7 core

Stefan Agner stefan at agner.ch
Thu Jan 7 08:04:44 CET 2016


On 2016-01-04 21:56, Peng Fan wrote:
> From: Peng Fan <peng.fan at nxp.com>
> 
> In current design, if any peripheral was assigned to both A7 and M4,
> it will receive ipg_stop or ipg_wait when any of the 2 platforms
> enter low power mode. We will have a risk that, if A7 enter wait,
> M4 enter stop, peripheral will have chance to get ipg_stop and ipg_wait
> asserted same time. Also if M4 enters stop mode, A7 will have no
> chance to access the peripheral.
> There are 26 peripherals impacted by this IC issue:

s/impacted/affected


> SIM2(sim2/emvsim2)
> SIM1(sim1/emvsim1)
> UART1/UART2/UART3/UART4/UART5/UART6/UART7
> SAI1/SAI2/SAI3
> WDOG1/WDOG2/WDOG3/WDOG4
> GPT1/GPT2/GPT3/GPT4
> PWM1/PWM2/PWM3/PWM4
> ENET1/ENET2
> Software Workaround:
> The solution is set M4 to a different domain with A core.

Set the M4 core to a different domain using A core? Or merely the
peripherals?

> So the peripherals are not shared by them. This way requires
> the uboot implemented the RDC driver and set the 26 IPs above
> to domain 0 only. M4 image will set the M4 to domain 1 and
> set peripheral which it will use to domain 1.

Hm, what happens if the M4 image is not doing that? Would that causing
problems?

--
Stefan

> 
> This patch enables the CONFIG_IMX_RDC and CONFIG_IMX_BOOTAUX for
> i.MX7D SABRESD board, and setup the 26 IP resources to domain 0.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ye.Li <ye.li at nxp.com>
> Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan at nxp.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/cpu/armv7/mx7/soc.c  | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  configs/mx7dsabresd_defconfig |  2 ++
>  2 files changed, 66 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/mx7/soc.c b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/mx7/soc.c
> index 2121ff2..ede7d53 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/mx7/soc.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/mx7/soc.c
> @@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
>  #include <asm/imx-common/boot_mode.h>
>  #include <asm/imx-common/dma.h>
>  #include <asm/imx-common/hab.h>
> +#include <asm/imx-common/rdc-sema.h>
> +#include <asm/arch/imx-rdc.h>
>  #include <asm/arch/crm_regs.h>
>  #include <dm.h>
>  #include <imx_thermal.h>
> @@ -29,6 +31,65 @@ U_BOOT_DEVICE(imx7_thermal) = {
>  };
>  #endif
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_IMX_RDC
> +/*
> + * In current design, if any peripheral was assigned to both A7 and M4,
> + * it will receive ipg_stop or ipg_wait when any of the 2 platforms enter
> + * low power mode. So M4 sleep will cause some peripherals fail to work
> + * at A7 core side. At default, all resources are in domain 0 - 3.
> + *
> + * There are 26 peripherals impacted by this IC issue:
> + * SIM2(sim2/emvsim2)
> + * SIM1(sim1/emvsim1)
> + * UART1/UART2/UART3/UART4/UART5/UART6/UART7
> + * SAI1/SAI2/SAI3
> + * WDOG1/WDOG2/WDOG3/WDOG4
> + * GPT1/GPT2/GPT3/GPT4
> + * PWM1/PWM2/PWM3/PWM4
> + * ENET1/ENET2
> + * Software Workaround:
> + * Here we setup some resources to domain 0 where M4 codes will move
> + * the M4 out of this domain. Then M4 is not able to access them any longer.
> + * This is a workaround for ic issue. So the peripherals are not shared
> + * by them. This way requires the uboot implemented the RDC driver and
> + * set the 26 IPs above to domain 0 only. M4 code will assign resource
> + * to its own domain, if it want to use the resource.
> + */
> +static rdc_peri_cfg_t const resources[] = {
> +	(RDC_PER_SIM1 | RDC_DOMAIN(0)),
> +	(RDC_PER_SIM2 | RDC_DOMAIN(0)),
> +	(RDC_PER_UART1 | RDC_DOMAIN(0)),
> +	(RDC_PER_UART2 | RDC_DOMAIN(0)),
> +	(RDC_PER_UART3 | RDC_DOMAIN(0)),
> +	(RDC_PER_UART4 | RDC_DOMAIN(0)),
> +	(RDC_PER_UART5 | RDC_DOMAIN(0)),
> +	(RDC_PER_UART6 | RDC_DOMAIN(0)),
> +	(RDC_PER_UART7 | RDC_DOMAIN(0)),
> +	(RDC_PER_SAI1 | RDC_DOMAIN(0)),
> +	(RDC_PER_SAI2 | RDC_DOMAIN(0)),
> +	(RDC_PER_SAI3 | RDC_DOMAIN(0)),
> +	(RDC_PER_WDOG1 | RDC_DOMAIN(0)),
> +	(RDC_PER_WDOG2 | RDC_DOMAIN(0)),
> +	(RDC_PER_WDOG3 | RDC_DOMAIN(0)),
> +	(RDC_PER_WDOG4 | RDC_DOMAIN(0)),
> +	(RDC_PER_GPT1 | RDC_DOMAIN(0)),
> +	(RDC_PER_GPT2 | RDC_DOMAIN(0)),
> +	(RDC_PER_GPT3 | RDC_DOMAIN(0)),
> +	(RDC_PER_GPT4 | RDC_DOMAIN(0)),
> +	(RDC_PER_PWM1 | RDC_DOMAIN(0)),
> +	(RDC_PER_PWM2 | RDC_DOMAIN(0)),
> +	(RDC_PER_PWM3 | RDC_DOMAIN(0)),
> +	(RDC_PER_PWM4 | RDC_DOMAIN(0)),
> +	(RDC_PER_ENET1 | RDC_DOMAIN(0)),
> +	(RDC_PER_ENET2 | RDC_DOMAIN(0)),
> +};
> +
> +static void isolate_resource(void)
> +{
> +	imx_rdc_setup_peripherals(resources, ARRAY_SIZE(resources));
> +}
> +#endif
> +
>  #if defined(CONFIG_SECURE_BOOT)
>  struct imx_sec_config_fuse_t const imx_sec_config_fuse = {
>  	.bank = 1,
> @@ -163,6 +224,9 @@ int arch_cpu_init(void)
>  	mxs_dma_init();
>  #endif
>  
> +	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IMX_RDC))
> +		isolate_resource();
> +
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> diff --git a/configs/mx7dsabresd_defconfig b/configs/mx7dsabresd_defconfig
> index 420d13e..1d262c1 100644
> --- a/configs/mx7dsabresd_defconfig
> +++ b/configs/mx7dsabresd_defconfig
> @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
>  CONFIG_ARM=y
>  CONFIG_ARCH_MX7=y
>  CONFIG_TARGET_MX7DSABRESD=y
> +CONFIG_IMX_RDC=y
> +CONFIG_IMX_BOOTAUX=y
>
> CONFIG_SYS_EXTRA_OPTIONS="IMX_CONFIG=board/freescale/mx7dsabresd/imximage.cfg,MX7D"
>  # CONFIG_CMD_BOOTD is not set
>  # CONFIG_CMD_IMI is not set


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