[RFC 7/7] ARM: dts: sun9i: Add secure SRAM node used for MCPM SMP hotplug

Maxime Ripard maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com
Wed May 20 03:08:31 PDT 2015


On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 02:10:11PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> The A80 stores some magic flags in a portion of the secure SRAM. The
> BROM jumps directly to the software entry point set by the SMP code
> if the flags are set. This is required for CPU0 hotplugging.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens at csie.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/sun9i-a80.dtsi | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun9i-a80.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun9i-a80.dtsi
> index 1507bd2a88f0..0695215634d4 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun9i-a80.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun9i-a80.dtsi
> @@ -366,6 +366,26 @@
>  		 */
>  		ranges = <0 0 0 0x20000000>;
>  
> +		sram_b: sram at 00020000 {
> +			/* 256 KiB secure SRAM at 0x20000 */
> +			compatible = "mmio-sram";
> +			reg = <0x00020000 0x40000>;
> +

We should probably add a property to that SRAM to tell the driver not
to access it if we're not booted in secure mode.

Otherwise, bad things might happen.

Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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