From: dave.martin@linaro.org (Dave Martin)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] ARM: Define wfi() macro for v6 processors
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 12:22:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110208122205.GA5903@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201102081311.52004.arnd@arndb.de>
> > On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 11:01:25AM +0000, Dave Martin wrote:
> > > For v6, wfi is architected as a defined MCR instruction, so
> > > use that definition.
[...]
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 01:11:51PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> I don't see any users of the sev/wfe/wfi macros in the current kernel,
> so removing them seems like a good strategy to avoid people from
> using them incorrectly.
>
> If the definitions differ between v5/v6/v7 CPUs, any common code
> using them would need to do either binary patching of some sort
> or abstract the difference between the CPU in some other way.
>
> Dave, what code do you have in mind as a possible user?
The OMAP BSP has its own version of this, which I'm suggesting
to port to the more generic macros in system.h, now that they
exist.
---Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-08 12:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-08 11:01 [PATCH v2] ARM: Define wfi() macro for v6 processors Dave Martin
2011-02-08 11:08 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-08 11:16 ` Dave Martin
2011-02-08 12:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-02-08 12:13 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-08 12:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-02-08 14:45 ` Dave Martin
2011-02-08 14:54 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2011-02-08 15:09 ` Dave Martin
2011-02-08 15:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-02-08 16:32 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-08 16:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-02-08 17:15 ` Dave Martin
2011-02-08 15:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-02-08 15:30 ` Dave Martin
2011-02-08 15:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-02-08 16:21 ` Dave Martin
2011-02-09 10:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-02-08 16:25 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-08 16:31 ` Dave Martin
2011-02-08 16:47 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-02-08 16:55 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-08 17:00 ` Dave Martin
2011-02-08 16:20 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-08 16:28 ` Dave Martin
2011-02-08 12:22 ` Dave Martin [this message]
2011-02-08 12:31 ` Santosh Shilimkar
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