[PATCHv7 08/12] ARM: OMAP4430: PM: Work-around for ROM code BUG of PER pwrst ctrl

Paul Walmsley paul at pwsan.com
Thu Jul 19 19:21:54 EDT 2012


Hi

On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Tero Kristo wrote:

> On OMAP4430 HS / EMU chips, ROM code appears to re-configure L4PER domain
> next powerstate during wakeup from OSWR / OFF, programming it to ON.
> This will prevent successive entries to cpuidle retention / off, until
> kernel decices to change the L4PER target state, which can be delayed
> for a very long time as kernel is lazy programming the target state.
> 
> This patch fixes the issue within the low power OSWR / OFF mode code, so
> that this register is saved / restored across MPU OSWR / OFF state.
> 
> This problem seems to only occur with OMAP4430 HS/EMU, it does not impact
> OMAP4460+ or GP devices.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tero Kristo <t-kristo at ti.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap-mpuss-lowpower.c |   39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm.h                  |    1 +
>  arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm44xx.c              |   10 +++++++
>  3 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap-mpuss-lowpower.c b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap-mpuss-lowpower.c
> index 0e5f81b..963a61b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap-mpuss-lowpower.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap-mpuss-lowpower.c

...

> @@ -215,6 +225,28 @@ static void save_l2x0_context(void)
>  {}
>  #endif
>  
> +static inline void save_l4per_regs(void)
> +{
> +	int i;
> +
> +	if (!IS_PM44XX_ERRATUM(PM_OMAP4_ROM_L4PER_ERRATUM_PWSTCT))
> +		return;
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(l4per_reg); i++)
> +		l4per_reg[i].val = __raw_readl(l4per_reg[i].addr);

This is accessing the system PRM registers directly.  We're trying to 
remove these raw register accesses from non-PRM code because a PRM driver 
is in the works.  Please move this to prm44xx.c or prminst44xx.c and 
implement a higher-level interface that omap-mpuss-lowpower.c can call.


- Paul



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