Re: [PATCH 4.4 23/26] power: reset: at91-poweroff: timely shutdown LPDDR memories

[Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>]

On Thu, 2017-04-06 at 20:13 +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 06/04/2017 at 18:45:39 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Thu, 2017-04-06 at 10:38 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > 4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > > 
> > > ------------------
> > > 
> > > From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
> > > 
> > > commit 0b0408745e7ff24757cbfd571d69026c0ddb803c upstream.
> > > 
> > > LPDDR memories can only handle up to 400 uncontrolled power off. Ensure the
> > > proper power off sequence is used before shutting down the platform.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > [...] 
> > > +static void at91_lpddr_poweroff(void)
> > > +{
> > > +	asm volatile(
> > > +		/* Align to cache lines */
> > > +		".balign 32\n\t"
> > > +
> > > +		/* Ensure AT91_SHDW_CR is in the TLB by reading it */
> > > +		"	ldr	r6, [%2, #" __stringify(AT91_SHDW_CR) "]\n\t"
> > 
> > This clobbers r6...
> > 
> > > +		/* Power down SDRAM0 */
> > > +		"	str	%1, [%0, #" __stringify(AT91_DDRSDRC_LPR) "]\n\t"
> > > +		/* Shutdown CPU */
> > > +		"	str	%3, [%2, #" __stringify(AT91_SHDW_CR) "]\n\t"
> > > +
> > > +		"	b	.\n\t"
> > > +		:
> > > +		: "r" (mpddrc_base),
> > > +		  "r" cpu_to_le32(AT91_DDRSDRC_LPDDR2_PWOFF),
> > > +		  "r" (at91_shdwc_base),
> > > +		  "r" cpu_to_le32(AT91_SHDW_KEY | AT91_SHDW_SHDW)
> > > +		: "r0");
> > [...]
> > 
> > ...but the clobber list has r0.
> > 
> 
> Indeed. However, It doesn't matter much as nothing can possibly run
> afterwards.

It does matter because the compiler can use r6 for one of the inputs.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
Software Developer, Codethink Ltd.