[PATCH v3 2/5] ARM: pm: add generic CPU suspend/resume support

[Santosh Shilimkar]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-arm-kernel-bounces at lists.infradead.org [mailto:linux-
> arm-kernel-bounces at lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Russell King -
> ARM Linux
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 5:29 PM
> To: Colin Cross; Santosh Shilimkar; Kukjin Kim
> Cc: saeed bishara; linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] ARM: pm: add generic CPU suspend/resume
> support
>
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 07:15:25PM -0800, Colin Cross wrote:
> > The diagnostic register also needs to be saved to keep the errata
> bits
> > set in __v7_setup.
>
> Saving I've no problem with.  Restoring gets hairy with kernels
> running
> in non-secure mode, as we can't just write the register - we don't
> know
> whether we are running in secure or non-secure mode.  A write to the
> register in NS mode will crash.
>
> Santosh: is the diagnostic register on OMAP4 re-initialized by the
> secure code on OMAP?
>
There is a Monitor secure API, needs to be called from non-secure
software to set this diagnostic registers in resume path.

Regards,
Santosh