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From: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Tony Lindgren" <tony@atomide.com>,
	"Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>, "Nishanth Menon" <nm@ti.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Ивайло Димитров" <freemangordon@abv.bg>,
	linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm: omap: RX-51: ARM errata 430973 workaround
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:37:24 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5154165C.4050604@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130328095011.GS30923@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Thursday 28 March 2013 03:20 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 01:56:07PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
>> * Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> [130324 07:31]:
>>> it is possible to upstream errata 430973 workaround for RX-51?
>>
>> I think we should make the SMC handling a generic function for ARM.
>>
>> AFAIK just the SMC call numbering is different for various
>> implementations. So the handler and passing of the parameters
>> seems like it should be generic.
> 
> SMC calls vary greatly in how they are handled.  The only thing that's
> generic is issuing the SMC call.  All the setup and what arguments are
> required are completely different from SoC to SoC.
> 
> For example, some SoCs require arguments passed via memory.  Others like
> OMAP its via registers.

Exactly. As somebody said on the list, that code looks identical but
it is not. An SMC with barrier instruction is mostly common and nothing
more than that.

Regards,
Santosh

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From: santosh.shilimkar@ti.com (Santosh Shilimkar)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] arm: omap: RX-51: ARM errata 430973 workaround
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:37:24 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5154165C.4050604@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130328095011.GS30923@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Thursday 28 March 2013 03:20 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 01:56:07PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
>> * Pali Roh?r <pali.rohar@gmail.com> [130324 07:31]:
>>> it is possible to upstream errata 430973 workaround for RX-51?
>>
>> I think we should make the SMC handling a generic function for ARM.
>>
>> AFAIK just the SMC call numbering is different for various
>> implementations. So the handler and passing of the parameters
>> seems like it should be generic.
> 
> SMC calls vary greatly in how they are handled.  The only thing that's
> generic is issuing the SMC call.  All the setup and what arguments are
> required are completely different from SoC to SoC.
> 
> For example, some SoCs require arguments passed via memory.  Others like
> OMAP its via registers.

Exactly. As somebody said on the list, that code looks identical but
it is not. An SMC with barrier instruction is mostly common and nothing
more than that.

Regards,
Santosh

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-28 10:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-01  7:47 [PATCH] arm: omap: RX-51: ARM errata 430973 workaround Ивайло Димитров
2013-03-01 14:38 ` Nishanth Menon
2013-03-01 14:38   ` Nishanth Menon
2013-03-04 18:58   ` Tony Lindgren
2013-03-04 18:58     ` Tony Lindgren
2013-03-06 14:09     ` Pali Rohár
2013-03-06 14:09       ` Pali Rohár
2013-03-06 17:51       ` Tony Lindgren
2013-03-06 17:51         ` Tony Lindgren
2013-03-06 19:13         ` Pali Rohár
2013-03-06 19:13           ` Pali Rohár
2013-03-24 14:26           ` Pali Rohár
2013-03-24 14:26             ` Pali Rohár
2013-03-27 20:56             ` Tony Lindgren
2013-03-27 20:56               ` Tony Lindgren
2013-03-27 20:56               ` Tony Lindgren
2013-03-27 21:05               ` Pali Rohár
2013-03-27 21:05                 ` Pali Rohár
2013-03-27 21:12                 ` Tony Lindgren
2013-03-27 21:12                   ` Tony Lindgren
2013-03-28  9:50               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-03-28  9:50                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-03-28 10:07                 ` Santosh Shilimkar [this message]
2013-03-28 10:07                   ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-03-28 15:53                   ` Tony Lindgren
2013-03-28 15:53                     ` Tony Lindgren
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-03-30 22:31 Ивайло Димитров
2013-03-31  7:37 ` Pavel Machek
2013-03-31  7:37   ` Pavel Machek
2013-03-28  5:30 Ивайло Димитров
2013-03-28 15:58 ` Tony Lindgren
2013-03-28 15:58   ` Tony Lindgren
2013-03-28 15:58   ` Tony Lindgren
2013-03-06  9:32 Ивайло Димитров
2013-03-01 10:09 Ивайло Димитров
2013-03-01 23:51 ` Aaro Koskinen
2013-03-01 23:51   ` Aaro Koskinen
2013-03-01 23:51   ` Aaro Koskinen
2013-02-28  9:42 Pali Rohár
2013-02-28  9:42 ` Pali Rohár
2013-02-28  9:42 ` Pali Rohár
2013-02-28 14:40 ` Nishanth Menon
2013-02-28 14:40   ` Nishanth Menon
2013-02-28 14:40   ` Nishanth Menon
2013-03-01  9:43 ` Peter De Schrijver
2013-03-01  9:43   ` Peter De Schrijver
2013-03-30 18:36 ` Pavel Machek
2013-03-30 18:36   ` Pavel Machek

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