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From: u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de (Uwe Kleine-König)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: Implement cpu_v7_reset.
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 07:03:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100902050349.GA14214@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C7EC313.7050705@codeaurora.org>

Hello,

> > +#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
> > +	mcr     p15, 0, ip, c8, c7, 0           @ invalidate I & D TLBs
> > +#endif
> > +	mrc     p15, 0, ip, c1, c0, 0           @ ctrl register
> > +	bic     ip, ip, #0x000f                 @ ............wcam
> > +	bic     ip, ip, #0x1100                 @ ...i...s........
> > +	mcr     p15, 0, ip, c1, c0, 0           @ ctrl register
> 
> On a related note, I was always a bit confused since proc-v6 and proc-v7
> don't turn off the MMU in their cpu_reset functions, which doesn't seem
> correct with respect to Documentation/arm/Booting. Is it necessary to
> turn off the MMU when kexec'ing the kernel? Last time I tried kexec'ing
> on a v6 it worked fine without turning off the MMU.
The boot process isn't that strict.  Having the MMU off is the safest,
but e.g. having an 1:1 mapping worked OK last time I checked.  But this
has to be considered to be by chance and it might not work with 2.6.37.

Best regards
Uwe

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Pengutronix e.K.                           | Uwe Kleine-K?nig            |
Industrial Linux Solutions                 | http://www.pengutronix.de/  |

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-02  5:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-01 14:01 [PATCH] ARM: Implement cpu_v7_reset Linus Walleij
2010-09-01 21:18 ` Stephen Boyd
2010-09-02  5:03   ` Uwe Kleine-König [this message]
2010-09-02  8:43     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-09-01 23:23 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-09-02  8:34   ` Mika Westerberg
2010-09-02  8:41     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-09-02  8:53       ` Mika Westerberg
2010-09-02 10:39         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-09-02 11:52           ` Mika Westerberg
2010-09-02 12:18             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-09-02 13:48               ` Mika Westerberg
2010-09-03  6:04                 ` Mika Westerberg
2010-09-06  8:58                   ` Per Fransson
2010-09-06 17:24                     ` Mika Westerberg
2010-09-02 13:30           ` Per Fransson
2010-09-03 18:17             ` Per Fransson

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