[PATCH] ARM: OMAP3: Fix imprecise external abort for off mode on 36xx

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Thu Apr 7 16:16:04 PDT 2016


* Dave Gerlach <d-gerlach at ti.com> [160407 13:18]:
> 
> I have a series to convert omap3 PM code to using generic SRAM driver but
> when testing I see an external abort on BBXM off mode resume very similar to
> this that seems to be timing related caused by using generic SRAM driver to
> re-copy PM code rather than omap3_sram_restore_context.
> 
> By tracing the resume path I believe the abort is caused by
> omap3_intc_resume_idle in pm34xx.c, which writes to two registers in the
> INTC. Removing this call makes the abort unreproducible in my experiments
> and changing the writes to reads causes a bus lock, so I'm pretty confident
> it's coming from this call attempting to write to an idled INTC.
> 
> Advisory 1.106 in DM3730 Silicon Errata Document [1] describes an issue with
> "MPU Leaves MSTANDBY State Before IDLEREQ of Interrupt Controller is
> Released" which sounds like a very similar failure situation to what we are
> seeing even though the timing of INTC access is a bit further from WFI exit
> than it describes. Perhaps there are more conditions where it can occur.
> Pushed my WIP branch for SRAM series that shows the same failure here [2].

Interesting, I think you may have something with the errata 1.106.. And
looks like we also need still errata 1.62 handled also on 36xx in the
same pdf. And need to disable intc autoidle early at least for HS omaps
as save_secure_ram context supposedly also can do WFI.

Maybe something like the following would make sense? It seems to work
here without external aborts with your test branch on dm3730, and boots
fine on omap3430 hs (n900).

Or do you have some better ideas for a fix?

Regards,

Tony

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From: Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 16:06:35 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: OMAP3: Fix external abort on 36xx waking from off mode
 idle

Depending on the timings affected by .config options, we may get
external aborts with 36xx. These seem to be caused by the following:

- omap3 errata 1.62 "MPU Cannot Exit from Standby" says we need to
  disable disable intc autoidle before WFI

- dm3730 errata 1.106 "MPU Leaves MSTANDBY State Before IDLEREQ of
  Interrupt Controller is Released" says we need to wait before
  accessing intc

Looks like we're currently disabling intc autoidle after we save
the intc context. And then we attempt to re-enable intc autoidle
after we restore intc context.

This means we're trying to restore intc autoidle twice, and it
occasionally fails as the intc restore may take a while for
things to get configured?

So we should either completely leave out omap3_intc_resume_idle()
assuming that the context restore really also enables the intc
autoidle.

Or we can disable intc autoidle before saving context, and then
reenable intc autoidle only after the context restore. This pairs
the calls, can we can call omap3_intc_resume_idle() later to
allow some time for intc to settle down.

Note that supposedly save_secure_ram() also can cause a WFI
in the secure ram code, so we need to disable intc autoidle
early. There's some information about that in the old thread
"[PATCH 09/13] OMAP3: PM: Apply errata i540 before save
secure ram".

--- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm34xx.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm34xx.c
@@ -303,6 +303,8 @@ void omap_sram_idle(void)
 		omap2_gpio_prepare_for_idle(per_going_off);
 	}
 
+	omap3_intc_prepare_idle();
+
 	/* CORE */
 	if (core_next_state < PWRDM_POWER_ON) {
 		if (core_next_state == PWRDM_POWER_OFF) {
@@ -314,8 +316,6 @@ void omap_sram_idle(void)
 	/* Configure PMIC signaling for I2C4 or sys_off_mode */
 	omap3_vc_set_pmic_signaling(core_next_state);
 
-	omap3_intc_prepare_idle();
-
 	/*
 	 * On EMU/HS devices ROM code restores a SRDC value
 	 * from scratchpad which has automatic self refresh on timeout
@@ -358,13 +358,14 @@ void omap_sram_idle(void)
 			omap2_sms_restore_context();
 		}
 	}
-	omap3_intc_resume_idle();
 
 	pwrdm_post_transition(NULL);
 
 	/* PER */
 	if (per_next_state < PWRDM_POWER_ON)
 		omap2_gpio_resume_after_idle();
+
+	omap3_intc_resume_idle();
 }
 
 static void omap3_pm_idle(void)



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