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From: Joe Kulikauskas <joe.kulikauskas@gmail.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] arm: empty isb() in set_cr
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:01:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50B4D5BC.5030907@gmail.com> (raw)

#define isb() __asm__ __volatile__ ("" : : : "memory")
is in arch/arm/include/asm/system.h.  In my build, that is going into 
set_cr(), producing no instruction.

Is that correct?  It has been in code since 
http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2009-March/049870.html.

Looks like it's used only in set_cr.  Other points in the code have 
nonempty code for ISB, for example
#define CP15ISB    asm volatile ("mcr     p15, 0, %0, c7, c5, 4" : : "r" 
(0))
which is in armv7.h

I don't have a standard reference platform to experiment with. The 
platform that I have uses a Cortex-A9 core, u-boot.2012.07 is ported and 
running. There are some intermittent issues there relating to enabling 
MMU/cache, lack of instruction barriers would be a plausible explanation.

Adding ISB SY in set_cr doesn't fix my issues, but it looks like a step 
in right direction. If someone could explain, or point me to email, I 
would appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

                 reply	other threads:[~2012-11-27 15:01 UTC|newest]

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