[RFC PATCH] ARM: cache-l2x0: add setup entry for l2 in non-secure mode

Barry Song 21cnbao at gmail.com
Mon May 19 02:11:06 PDT 2014


2014-05-19 8:29 GMT+08:00 Gioh Kim <gioh.kim at lge.com>:
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> 2014-05-18 오후 10:13, Barry Song 쓴 글:
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>> 2014-05-15 13:39 GMT+08:00 Gioh Kim <gioh.kim at lge.com>:
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> My board is using Trustzone and running kernel is non-secure mode.
>>> But setup function of PL310 driver is only for secure mode kernel.
>>>
>>> What about adding an entry for non-secure mode setup function?
>>>
>>> I'm sorry for my poor code but I just wanna say what I need .
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>> Gioh,
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>> i don't really understand what is the user scenarios for this, if you
>> are running linux in non-secure mode, your security-mode codes have
>> enabled L2, so this makes non-secure linux have no chance to execute
>> setup at all:
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> My platform runs linux kernel before L2 cache activation.
> And the L2 cache is activated when the kernel sends command to Trustzone
> firmware.
> At this moment L2 is not activated. Linux should send command for L2
> activation to Trustzone at the moment.

i think you can send command to trustzone firmware to enable L2 at
first, then make your Linux l2 driver run.


-barry



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