[PATCH 1/2] Enable a way to provide the reason for "being here"

[Marc Kleine-Budde]

On 06/20/2012 04:32 PM, Juergen Beisert wrote:
> Many architectures support a way to detect why the bootloader is running.
> This patch adds a global variable to be able to use the cause in some kind of
> shell code to do special things on demand. For example to do an emergency boot,
> when the last boot fails and the watchdog reactivate the hanging system.

Good idea, See comments inline.

Marc

> Signed-off-by: Juergen Beisert <jbe at pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  common/Makefile        |    2 +-
>  common/reset_source.c  |   62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/reset_source.h |   26 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 common/reset_source.c
>  create mode 100644 include/reset_source.h
> 
> diff --git a/common/Makefile b/common/Makefile
> index a1926d3..61eeb6b 100644
> --- a/common/Makefile
> +++ b/common/Makefile
> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_CMD_BOOTM) += uimage.o
>  obj-y += startup.o
>  obj-y += misc.o
>  obj-y += memsize.o
> -obj-$(CONFIG_GLOBALVAR) += globalvar.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_GLOBALVAR) += globalvar.o reset_source.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_FILETYPE) += filetype.o
>  obj-y += resource.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_MENU) += menu.o
> diff --git a/common/reset_source.c b/common/reset_source.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..19015b2
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/common/reset_source.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
> +/*
> + * (C) Copyright 2012 Juergen Beisert - <kernel at pengutronix.de>
> + *
> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> + * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
> + * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
> + * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
> + *
> + * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> + * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> + * GNU General Public License for more details.
> + */
> +
> +#include <common.h>
> +#include <init.h>
> +#include <environment.h>
> +#include <globalvar.h>
> +#include <reset_source.h>
> +
> +static const char name[] = "global.system.reset";
> +static const char unknown_reset[] = "unknown";
> +static const char power_on_reset[] = "POR";
> +static const char manual_reset[] = "RST";
> +static const char watchdog[] = "WDG";
> +static const char wake[] = "WKE";
> +static const char jtag[] = "JTAG";

what about using an array

static cost char *reset_reason_array[] = {
	[RESET_UKWN] = "unknown",
	...
};

> +
> +void set_reset_source(unsigned source)
                         ^^^^^^^^
enum (see below)

> +{
> +	switch (source) {
> +	case RESET_UKWN:
> +		setenv(name, unknown_reset);
> +		break;
> +	case RESET_POR:
> +		setenv(name, power_on_reset);
> +		break;
> +	case RESET_RST:
> +		setenv(name, manual_reset);
> +		break;
> +	case RESET_WDG:
> +		setenv(name, watchdog);
> +		break;
> +	case RESET_WKE:
> +		setenv(name, wake);
> +		break;
> +	case RESET_JTAG:
> +		setenv(name, jtag);
> +		break;

	if (source >= ARRAY_SIZE(reset_reason_array)
		return;

	setenv("global.system.reset", reset_reason_array[source]);

> +	}
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_reset_source);
> +
> +/* ensure this runs after the 'global' device is already registerd */
> +static int init_reset_source(void)
> +{
> +	globalvar_add_simple(&name[7]);
> +	set_reset_source(RESET_UKWN);
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +coredevice_initcall(init_reset_source);
> diff --git a/include/reset_source.h b/include/reset_source.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..bc7e736
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/reset_source.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
> +/*
> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> + * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
> + * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
> + * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
> + *
> + * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> + * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> + * GNU General Public License for more details.
> + */
> +
> +#ifndef __INCLUDE_RESET_SOURCE_H
> +# define __INCLUDE_RESET_SOURCE_H
> +
> +/* possible parameters to set_reset_source() */
> +#define RESET_UKWN 0
> +#define RESET_POR 1	/* Power On Reset */
> +#define RESET_RST 2	/* generic ReST */
> +#define RESET_WDG 3	/* watchdog */
> +#define RESET_WKE 4	/* wake */
> +#define RESET_JTAG 5

use enum here

> +
> +extern void set_reset_source(unsigned);
> +
> +#endif /* __INCLUDE_RESET_SOURCE_H */


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