[PATCH] ARM: Fix errata 751472 handling on Cortex-A9 r1p*

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 09:13:33AM -0800, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> [121116 02:07]:
> > 
> > So, we don't detect whether we're running in secure mode or not; as I've
> > already stated, we don't have a way to do that.  We instead only apply
> > work-arounds which aren't already enabled prior to the kernel booting.
> > So, even on a secure mode platform, we will avoid writing the bits if the
> > work-around has already been applied.
> 
> This all assumes that we can read the value of the diagnostic register,
> and on my 4430 blaze the read returns zero. I have no idea if this is
> the correct value for the register, or if reads always just returns 0.

ARM Ltd has made that assumption since the inception of the errata
work-arounds appearing in the kernel for v6+ CPUs...

But your question may prove to be moot if we end up ripping all these
out, like I'm beginning to think we should do.