[PATCH 1/1] ARM: pxa168: fix corrected reset vector

Eric Miao eric.y.miao at gmail.com
Tue Aug 31 02:54:33 EDT 2010


On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Mark F. Brown <mark.brown314 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:26 AM, Haojian Zhuang
> <haojian.zhuang at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Eric Miao <eric.y.miao at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Eric Miao <eric.y.miao at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Mark F. Brown <mark.brown314 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Eric Miao <eric.y.miao at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Mark F. Brown <mark.brown314 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Mark F. Brown <mark.brown314 at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>  arch/arm/mach-mmp/include/mach/system.h |    2 +-
>>>>>>>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-mmp/include/mach/system.h b/arch/arm/mach-mmp/include/mach/system.h
>>>>>>> index 4f5b0e0..926e9c0 100644
>>>>>>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-mmp/include/mach/system.h
>>>>>>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-mmp/include/mach/system.h
>>>>>>> @@ -16,6 +16,6 @@ static inline void arch_idle(void)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  static inline void arch_reset(char mode, const char *cmd)
>>>>>>>  {
>>>>>>> -       cpu_reset(0);
>>>>>>> +       cpu_reset(0xffff0000);
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not sure if this correct. But normally reset jump happens after we turn
>>>>>> off the MMU and so on. Ain't the BootROM starts from 0 ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  }
>>>>>>>  #endif /* __ASM_MACH_SYSTEM_H */
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> 1.7.0.4
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Eric, the boot-rom for pxa168 starts at 0xffff_0000. I am pretty sure
>>>>> about that! If you set the reset vector to 0x0 it will crash during
>>>>> reboot. I will send you xdb snapshots if you need me to.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> OK, you are expert on this :-)
>>>>
>>>> Applied to 'fix'.
>>>>
>>>
>>> One moment. Since this is really global to pxa910 and mmp2, so I
>>> suggest this being fixed for pxa168 only first. How about this:
>>>
>>>    ARM: pxa168: fix corrected reset vector
>>>
>>>    Reset vector for pxa168 is 0xffff_0000 not 0x0. This fix allows
>>>    reboot to work
>>>
>>>    Signed-off-by: Mark F. Brown <mark.brown314 at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-mmp/include/mach/system.h
>>> b/arch/arm/mach-mmp/include/mach/system.h
>>> index 4f5b0e0..1a8a25e 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-mmp/include/mach/system.h
>>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-mmp/include/mach/system.h
>>> @@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
>>>  #ifndef __ASM_MACH_SYSTEM_H
>>>  #define __ASM_MACH_SYSTEM_H
>>>
>>> +#include <mach/cputype.h>
>>> +
>>>  static inline void arch_idle(void)
>>>  {
>>>        cpu_do_idle();
>>> @@ -16,6 +18,9 @@ static inline void arch_idle(void)
>>>
>>>  static inline void arch_reset(char mode, const char *cmd)
>>>  {
>>> -       cpu_reset(0);
>>> +       if (cpu_is_pxa168())
>>> +               cpu_reset(0xffff0000);
>>> +       else
>>> +               cpu_reset(0);
>>>  }
>>>  #endif /* __ASM_MACH_SYSTEM_H */
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>> The reset code is in below.
>>
>>        .align  5
>> ENTRY(cpu_mohawk_reset)
>>        mov     ip, #0
>>        mcr     p15, 0, ip, c7, c7, 0           @ invalidate I,D caches
>>        mcr     p15, 0, ip, c7, c10, 4          @ drain WB
>>        mcr     p15, 0, ip, c8, c7, 0           @ invalidate I & D TLBs
>>        mrc     p15, 0, ip, c1, c0, 0           @ ctrl register
>>        bic     ip, ip, #0x0007                 @ .............cam
>>        bic     ip, ip, #0x1100                 @ ...i...s........
>>        mcr     p15, 0, ip, c1, c0, 0           @ ctrl register
>>        mov     pc, r0
>>
>> MMU is disabled at here and replace PC with r0 value. I doubt code
>> executed correctly at here. While MMU is disabled, the PC should be
>> continue in the range of 0xCxxx_xxxx (kernel space). "mov pc, r0"
>> shouldn't be executed. Instruction fetch failure should occurs since
>> there's no physical address in 0xCxxx_xxxx.
>>
>> Correct me if I'm wrong.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Haojian
>>
>
> Haojian,
>
> I think there is a pipeline execution of the mov pc, r0 instruction.

It does depend on the prefetch unit for that. So the branch instruction
should follow right after the mcr one.

> If I remember correctly you need to do a similar jump when you turn
> the MMU on in early boot code. If it makes any difference I did test
> this code on pxa168 before submitting it. I will double check the mmp2
> and the pxa910 reset vectors with the Boot ROM developers.
>



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