[PATCH] msm: fix debug-macro.S build failure

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Thu Oct 28 14:43:16 EDT 2010


On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 02:24:33PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > 
> > > This is what the function currently has,
> > > 
> > >         .macro  addruart, rp, rv
> > >         ldr     \rp, =MSM_DEBUG_UART_PHYS
> > >         ldr     \rv, =MSM_DEBUG_UART_BASE
> > >         .endm
> > > 
> > > So if we have a MSM_DEBUG_UART_PHYS and MSM_DEBUG_UART_BASE we're
> > > returning it. We don't actually have those values for all the boards
> > > tho. My understanding was that there are some generic arm changes
> > > needed, but I need to confirm that.
> > 
> > Just return 0 in both registers when you have nothing better to return.
> 
> That's not a good idea - it'll cause 512MB of 1:1 mappings to be setup
> at virtual location 0 using the IO flags, which may conflict on ARMv6+.
> A better idea would be to return 0xfff00000, which'll cause it to only
> populate the top-most 1MB.

Given that this a phony address, better test for 0 explicitly and skip 
the mapping as well as bailing out early from putchar, etc.


Nicolas



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