[PATCH 05/16] ARM: mvebu: Add workaround for cpuidle support for Armada 370

[Gregory CLEMENT]

Hi Thomas,

On 30/06/2014 14:50, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Gregory CLEMENT,
> 
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:22:46 +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
>> On Armada 370, there is "a slow exit process from the deep idle state
>> due to heavy L1/L2 cache cleanup operations performed by the BootROM
>> software" (cf errata GL-BootROM-10). To avoid this, we replace the
>> restart code of the BootROM by a simple jump to the boot address. Then
>> the code located at this boot address will take care of the
>> initialization.
>>
>> For this purpose, we use the common function mvebu_boot_addr_wa()
>> introduced in the previous commit.
> 
> "in the previous commit" would make sense if the commit immediately
> before this one in the series was the one you would be referencing. But
> that's not the case here, so it should be either: "introduced in one of
> the previous commits", or better "introduced in commit <title of the
> commit>".

Yes it should have been the previous commit at a point of development
and it was moved during a rebase. Using the title of the commit is more
reliable indeed.

> 
>>  #define PMSU_BASE_OFFSET    0x100
>>  #define PMSU_REG_SIZE	    0x1000
>> @@ -77,6 +76,9 @@ extern void ll_enable_coherency(void);
>>  
>>  extern void armada_370_xp_cpu_resume(void);
>>  
>> +static unsigned long pmsu_mp_phys_base;
> 
> phys_addr_t.

OK


Thanks,

Gregory


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