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* [PATCH] ARM: LPAE: Check the CPU support for the long descriptor format
@ 2012-01-04 17:04 Catalin Marinas
  2012-01-04 19:34 ` Nicolas Pitre
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Catalin Marinas @ 2012-01-04 17:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-arm-kernel

This patch adds a check for the presence of the LPAE feature during the
CPU initialisation. If not present, it reports an error when
CONFIG_DEBUG_LL is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
---
 arch/arm/kernel/head.S |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
index 54fa641..b26291c 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
@@ -99,6 +99,14 @@ ENTRY(stext)
  THUMB( it	eq )		@ force fixup-able long branch encoding
 	beq	__error_p			@ yes, error 'p'
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_LPAE
+	mrc	p15, 0, r3, c0, c1, 4		@ read ID_MMFR0
+	and	r3, r3, #0xf			@ extract VMSA support
+	cmp	r3, #5				@ long-descriptor translation table format?
+ THUMB( it	lo )				@ force fixup-able long branch encoding
+	blo	__error_p			@ only classic page table format
+#endif
+
 #ifndef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL
 	adr	r3, 2f
 	ldmia	r3, {r4, r8}

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* [PATCH] ARM: LPAE: Check the CPU support for the long descriptor format
  2012-01-04 17:04 [PATCH] ARM: LPAE: Check the CPU support for the long descriptor format Catalin Marinas
@ 2012-01-04 19:34 ` Nicolas Pitre
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Nicolas Pitre @ 2012-01-04 19:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-arm-kernel

On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote:

> This patch adds a check for the presence of the LPAE feature during the
> CPU initialisation. If not present, it reports an error when
> CONFIG_DEBUG_LL is enabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>

> ---
>  arch/arm/kernel/head.S |    8 ++++++++
>  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
> index 54fa641..b26291c 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
> @@ -99,6 +99,14 @@ ENTRY(stext)
>   THUMB( it	eq )		@ force fixup-able long branch encoding
>  	beq	__error_p			@ yes, error 'p'
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_LPAE
> +	mrc	p15, 0, r3, c0, c1, 4		@ read ID_MMFR0
> +	and	r3, r3, #0xf			@ extract VMSA support
> +	cmp	r3, #5				@ long-descriptor translation table format?
> + THUMB( it	lo )				@ force fixup-able long branch encoding
> +	blo	__error_p			@ only classic page table format
> +#endif
> +
>  #ifndef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL
>  	adr	r3, 2f
>  	ldmia	r3, {r4, r8}
> 
> 
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