[PATCH] Check whether the SCU was already initialised

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Thu Oct 15 08:26:07 EDT 2009


If Linux is running in non-secure mode, this register may have been
already initialised and writing to the control register not allowed.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm/kernel/smp_scu.c |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/smp_scu.c b/arch/arm/kernel/smp_scu.c
index d3831f6..9ab4149 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/smp_scu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/smp_scu.c
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ void __init scu_enable(void __iomem *scu_base)
 	u32 scu_ctrl;
 
 	scu_ctrl = __raw_readl(scu_base + SCU_CTRL);
+	/* already enabled? */
+	if (scu_ctrl & 1)
+		return;
+
 	scu_ctrl |= 1;
 	__raw_writel(scu_ctrl, scu_base + SCU_CTRL);
 




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