[PATCH v2 03/10] ARM: mvebu: add workaround for data abort issue on Armada 375

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Wed Feb 12 08:10:35 EST 2014


On Wednesday 12 February 2014 11:23:32 Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> +/*
> + * Early versions of Armada 375 SoC have a bug where the BootROM
> + * leaves an external data abort pending. The kernel is hit by this
> + * data abort as soon as it enters userspace, because it unmasks the
> + * data aborts at this moment. We register a custom abort handler
> + * below to ignore the first data abort to work around this problem.
> + */
> +static int armada_375_external_abort_wa(unsigned long addr, unsigned int fsr,
> +                                       struct pt_regs *regs)
> +{
> +       static int ignore_first;
> +
> +       if (!ignore_first) {
> +               ignore_first = 1;
> +               return 0;
> +       }
> +
> +       return 1;
> +}

I think this should try to match the fsr and addr field if possible and
only ignore the one external abort you expect.

	Arnd



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