[PATCH v2] ARM: save/restore diagnostic register on Cortex-A9 suspend/resume

Tomasz Figa t.figa at samsung.com
Tue Jun 24 09:28:54 PDT 2014


Hi Shawn,

On 22.06.2014 12:15, 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.
> 
> The patch adds a couple of Cortex-A9 specific suspend and resume
> functions to handle the diagnostic register across suspend/resume cycle.

[snip]

> +ENTRY(cpu_ca9mp_do_resume)
> +	ldmia	r0!, {r4}
> +	mcr	p15, 0, r4, c15, c0, 1  @ Diagnostic register

What about platforms running in non-secure mode in which the register is
read-only?

Best regards,
Tomasz



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