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From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
To: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Stepan Moskovchenko <stepanm@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ARM: Work around faulty ISAR0 register in some Krait CPUs
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 14:28:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130317142854.GC19071@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1363138321-27849-4-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org>

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 01:32:01AM +0000, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Some early versions of the Krait CPU design incorrectly indicate
> that they only support the UDIV and SDIV instructions in Thumb
> mode when they actually support them in ARM and Thumb mode. It
> seems that these CPUs follow the DDI0406B ARM ARM which has two
> possible values for the divide instructions field, instead of the
> DDI0406C document which has three possible values.
> 
> Work around this problem by checking the MIDR against Krait CPUs
> with this faulty ISAR0 register and force the detection code
> to indicate support in both modes.
> 
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> Cc: Stepan Moskovchenko <stepanm@codeaurora.org>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm/kernel/setup.c | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

After all this, you might as well just pass the relevant HWCAPs for your
krait entry in proc-v7.S rather than have an exception in the CPU-agnostic
code.

Thanks for adding the detection code though -- we can use that for A7/A15.

Will

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-17 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-13  1:31 [PATCH 0/3] Detect UDIV/SDIV support from ISAR0 Stephen Boyd
2013-03-13  1:31 ` [PATCH 1/3] ARM: Clear IDIVT hwcap if CONFIG_ARM_THUMB=n Stephen Boyd
2013-03-17 14:29   ` Will Deacon
2013-03-13  1:32 ` [PATCH 2/3] ARM: Detect support for SDIV/UDIV from ISAR0 register Stephen Boyd
2013-03-17 14:36   ` Will Deacon
2013-03-18 17:13     ` Stephen Boyd
2013-03-13  1:32 ` [PATCH 3/3] ARM: Work around faulty ISAR0 register in some Krait CPUs Stephen Boyd
2013-03-17 14:28   ` Will Deacon [this message]
2013-03-18 17:03     ` Stephen Boyd
2013-03-18 18:19       ` Will Deacon

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