[PATCH v3] ARM: vfp: Always save VFP state in vfp_pm_suspend

Barry Song 21cnbao at gmail.com
Mon May 9 12:55:41 EDT 2011


2011/5/10 Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>:
> On 4 May 2011 07:16, Barry Song <bs14 at csr.com> wrote:
>> From: Colin Cross <ccross at android.com>
>>
>> vfp_pm_suspend should save the VFP state any time there is
>> a last_VFP_context.  If it only saves when the VFP is enabled,
>> the state can get lost when, on a UP system:
>>   Thread 1 uses the VFP
>>   Context switch occurs to thread 2, VFP is disabled but the
>>      VFP context is not saved to allow lazy save and restore
>>   Thread 2 initiates suspend
>>   vfp_pm_suspend is called with the VFP disabled, but the
>>      context has not been saved.
>>
>> Modify vfp_pm_suspend to save the VFP context whenever
>> last_VFP_context is set.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross at android.com>
>> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
>> Cc: Binghua Duan <binghua.duan at csr.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Rongjun Ying <rongjun.ying at csr.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Barry Song <21cnbao at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c |    6 ++++++
>>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c b/arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c
>> index bbf3da0..a54c4d6 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c
>> @@ -392,6 +392,12 @@ static int vfp_pm_suspend(struct sys_device *dev, pm_message_t state)
>>
>>                /* disable, just in case */
>>                fmxr(FPEXC, fmrx(FPEXC) & ~FPEXC_EN);
>> +       } else {
>> +               if (last_VFP_context[ti->cpu]) {
>> +                       fmxr(FPEXC, fpexc | FPEXC_EN);
>> +                       vfp_save_state(last_VFP_context[ti->cpu], fpexc);
>> +                       fmxr(FPEXC, fpexc);
>> +               }
>>        }
>
> I would use
>
>        } else if () {
>
>        }
>
> to avoid another level of indentation.
>
> Otherwise the patch looks fine to me (I haven't tested it).
>

looks good to me.

> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
>
then i will send out v4.



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