[PATCH v3] ARM: save/restore Cortex-A9 CP15 registers on suspend/resume

Shawn Guo shawn.guo at freescale.com
Sun Jul 13 22:19:06 PDT 2014


On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 05:05:23PM +0200, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2014, Shawn Guo wrote:
> 
> > The CP15 diagnostic register holds ARM errata bits on Cortex-A9, so it
> > needs to be saved/restored on suspend/resume.  Otherwise, the
> > effectiveness of errata workaround gets lost together with diagnostic
> > register bit across suspend/resume cycle.  And the CP15 power control
> > register of Cortex-A9 shares the same problem.
> > 
> > The patch adds a couple of Cortex-A9 specific suspend/resume functions
> > to save/restore these two Cortex-A9 CP15 registers across the
> > suspend/resume cycle.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at freescale.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico at linaro.org

Thanks, Nico.

If no one has objection to the patch, I'm going to put it into patch
tracker soon.

Shawn



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