[PATCH 2/2] ARM: OMAP4+: Move SRAM data to DT

[Sekhar Nori]

On Wednesday 28 August 2013 11:53 AM, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 August 2013 04:53 PM, Sekhar Nori wrote:
>> On Tuesday 27 August 2013 03:41 PM, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
>>> Use drivers/misc/sram.c driver to manage SRAM on all DT only
>>> OMAP platforms (am33xx, am43xx, omap4 and omap5) instead of
>>> the existing private implementation.
>>>
>>> Address and size related data  is removed from mach-omap2/sram.c
>>> and now passed to drivers/misc/sram.c from DT.
>>>
>>> Users can hence use general purpose allocator apis instead of
>>> OMAP private ones to manage and use SRAM.
>>>
>>> Currently there are no users on SRAM on these platfoms.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Rajendra Nayak <rnayak at ti.com>
>>
>> Nice getting rid of code.
>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/sram.h b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/sram.h
>>> index ca7277c..3f83b80 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/sram.h
>>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/sram.h
>>> @@ -80,4 +80,3 @@ static inline void omap_push_sram_idle(void) {}
>>>  #else
>>>  #define OMAP4_SRAM_PA		0x40300000
>>>  #endif
>>> -#define AM33XX_SRAM_PA		0x40300000
>>
>> I guess OMAP4_SRAM_PA is left in the code to take care of errata I688?
> 
> right.
> 
>> How about removing the iotable entry for SRAM on OMAP4 and converting
>> omap_barriers_init() to use the gen_pool API instead of passing an
>> incremented address to DT?
> 
> Actually we dont really need to alloc and manage any sram pool for handling
> the errata. It just needs to know an sram location which it can read and write
> back into (which can be any sram location used/unused).

But there will be a race with other writes to SRAM since omap_bus_sync()
is not atomic context.

Thanks,
Sekhar