[PATCH 1/2] arm: Replace CONFIG_HAS_TLS_REG with HWCAP_TLS and check for it on V6

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Thu Jul 1 05:25:10 EDT 2010


* Nicolas Pitre <nico at fluxnic.net> [100630 17:36]:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> 
> > * Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> [100630 14:02]:
> > > * Nicolas Pitre <nico at fluxnic.net> [100629 22:14]:
> > > 
> > > Updated patch below.
> > 
> > And a bug crept in..
> > 
> > > +	.macro set_tls_v6, tp, tmp1, tmp2
> > > +	ldr	\tmp1, =elf_hwcap
> > > +	ldr	\tmp1, [\tmp1, #0]
> > > +	mov	\tmp2, #0xffff0fff
> > > +	tst	\tmp2, #HWCAP_TLS		@ hardware TLS available?
> > > +	mcrne	p15, 0, \tp, c13, c0, 3		@ yes, set TLS register
> > > +	streq	\tp, [\tmp2, #-15]		@ set TLS value at 0xffff0ff0
> > > +	.endm
> > 
> > The tst	\tmp2, #HWCAP_TLS should of course use \tmp1.
> > 
> > Also fixed a warning about adding parentheses around comparison
> > if (id & 0x410f0000) != 0x41070000).
> 
> Here you probably want (id & 0xff0f0000) and not (id & 0x410f0000).

Thanks, fixed.
 
> > Again, updated patch below.
> 
> I like it.  However, in proc-v6.S, you don't need to add a reference to 
> feat_v6_fixup() to the __pj4_v6_proc_info block.  Simply adding 
> HWCAP_TLS in that case should be fine as PJ4 always has the TLS reg.

Fixed that too.
 
> With the above fixes, you can add
> 
> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre at linaro.org>

Thanks, updated patch below.

Tony
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