[PATCH] ARM: save/restore diagnostic register on ARMv7 suspend/resume

Shawn Guo shawn.guo at freescale.com
Wed Jun 18 08:04:29 PDT 2014


On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 10:37:15AM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, Shawn Guo wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 11:40:09AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 09:49:58AM +0100, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > > > The CP15 diagnostic register holds ARM errata bits on ARMv7, 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.
> > > 
> > > This should be conditional on Cortex-A9, since this register is certainly
> > > not architected.
> > 
> > Ah, yes.  In that case, I should probably handle it at platform level to
> > avoid messing up generic ARMv7 suspend/resume routines.
> 
> Please don't do that.
> 
> You may look at commit 16c79a3776 and do something similar for 
> Cortex-A9.

Okay.  Thanks for the hint, Nico.  Will work out a V2 patch soon.

Shawn



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