From: "Shilimkar, Santosh" <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
"linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>,
Aneesh V <aneesh@ti.com>,
linux-arm <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
Joe Woodward <jw@terrafix.co.uk>
Subject: Re: OMAP3 L2/outer cache enabled in kernel (after being disabled by uBoot)?
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:11:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMQu2gyjGYooWih=cK72VYEe8X_bKyOi3_eHec7cWi37CHBoJQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120117194724.GI16726@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 04:27:21PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>> Anyway, the first step is this API provided by the secure firmware.
>> Since such API may need to be called before the MMU is initialised,
>> Linux would need to have knowledge of the platform type early on. Having
>> some platform hook (asm macro) to call early on wouldn't work with the
>> single zImage configuration. Stack space is not an issue as we already
>> have one for ARMv7 for D-cache flushing (XIP kernels would work but they
>> aren't that many).
>
> It _is_ a problem. How much stack space would these undefined platform
> specific functions require? 16 words? 32 words? A page? Where does
> this memory come from? The .data section, or are we going to stuff it
> into what is supposed to be the read-only text section?
Stack requirement is limited to saving and restoring the processor
registers. There is no additional need. If this is an issue, we can also use
SRAM as a stack for this operation.
Regards
Santosh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-17 20:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-16 10:03 OMAP3 L2/outer cache enabled in kernel (after being disabled by uBoot)? Joe Woodward
2012-01-16 10:18 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2012-01-16 10:59 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-01-16 12:43 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2012-01-16 13:13 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-01-16 13:22 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2012-01-17 8:54 ` Joe Woodward
2012-01-17 12:11 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-01-17 12:27 ` Aneesh V
[not found] ` <CAMQu2gyft96O61Toja-h-MPpzFTQ8dpJWauw3o6qcPQBXEC_6A@mail.gmail.com>
2012-01-17 13:39 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-01-17 13:58 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2012-01-17 16:27 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-01-17 17:27 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2012-01-17 19:39 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-01-17 20:27 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2012-01-17 20:45 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-01-17 20:57 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-01-17 20:58 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2012-01-17 21:02 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-01-18 8:43 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2012-01-17 21:15 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-01-17 19:47 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-01-17 20:11 ` Shilimkar, Santosh [this message]
2012-01-17 20:48 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-01-17 19:43 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-01-20 8:57 ` Joe Woodward
2012-01-27 11:45 ` Joe Woodward
2012-01-27 17:30 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-01-31 5:21 ` Aneesh V
2012-01-31 7:31 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-01-31 7:38 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2012-01-31 8:54 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-01-31 9:05 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2012-01-31 9:53 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-01-31 10:10 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-01-31 12:10 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-01-31 18:09 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-02-02 14:32 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-02-02 14:49 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-02 15:10 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-01-31 9:56 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-01-31 10:51 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2012-01-31 18:27 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-02-01 7:12 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2012-01-17 14:18 ` Grazvydas Ignotas
2012-01-17 13:41 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-01-17 13:54 ` Aneesh V
2012-01-17 14:23 ` Måns Rullgård
2012-01-17 12:01 ` Aneesh V
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