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

Dave Gerlach d-gerlach at ti.com
Wed Apr 13 08:45:58 PDT 2016


On 04/11/2016 07:01 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Dave Gerlach <d-gerlach at ti.com> [160411 16:17]:
>> On 04/11/2016 04:13 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
>>>> We still need the call to omap3_intc_resume_idle because the intc restore
>>>> context only gets called on resume from off mode. Perhaps we only need to
>>>> call omap3_intc_resume_idle when coming back from non-off modes, otherwise
>>>> let the context restore handle the reconfig of the INTC idle/sysconfig
>>>> registers?
>>>
>>> OK. Did you actually test by commenting out omap3_intc_resume_idle()?
>>>
>>> Yeah sounds like we can optimize out the restore there for non-off
>>> modes.
>>
>> Yes I removed it entirely for testing, and I also tried something like this for
>> a possible workable solution (without your patch applied):
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm34xx.c b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm34xx.c
>> index fcf975eb5e9d..8d39b44ba3a3 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm34xx.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm34xx.c
>> @@ -268,7 +268,6 @@ void omap_sram_idle(void)
>>          int per_next_state = PWRDM_POWER_ON;
>>          int core_next_state = PWRDM_POWER_ON;
>>          int per_going_off;
>> -       int core_prev_state;
>>          u32 sdrc_pwr = 0;
>>
>>          mpu_next_state = pwrdm_read_next_pwrst(mpu_pwrdm);
>> @@ -348,17 +347,16 @@ void omap_sram_idle(void)
>>                  sdrc_write_reg(sdrc_pwr, SDRC_POWER);
>>
>>          /* CORE */
>> -       if (core_next_state < PWRDM_POWER_ON) {
>> -               core_prev_state = pwrdm_read_prev_pwrst(core_pwrdm);
>> -               if (core_prev_state == PWRDM_POWER_OFF) {
>> +       if (core_next_state < PWRDM_POWER_ON &&
>> +           pwrdm_read_prev_pwrst(core_pwrdm) == PWRDM_POWER_OFF) {
>>                          omap3_core_restore_context();
>>                          omap3_cm_restore_context();
>>                          omap3_push_sram_idle();
>>                          omap3_push_sram_secure_idle();
>>                          omap2_sms_restore_context();
>> -               }
>> -       }
>> -       omap3_intc_resume_idle();
>> +       } else
>> +               omap3_intc_resume_idle();
>> +
>>
>>          pwrdm_post_transition(NULL);
>>
>>
>
> OK yeah that works for me.
>
> Can you post a proper patch with few minor changes:
>
> - Add a comment to the code somewhere saying that for off mode,
>    omap3_core_restore_context() also restores intc and we don't
>    need to omap3_intc_resume_idle().
>
> - Add the brackets to the one line else statement for checkpatch.

Thanks for your comments, I'm sure you've seen it but I sent a patch 
here with the fixes you recommended here: 
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8811951/

Regards,
Dave

>
> Cheers,
>
> Tony
>




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