[PATCH v2] RFC: ARM: cache-l2x0: update workaround for PL310 errata 727915

Shilimkar, Santosh santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Mon May 28 06:17:23 EDT 2012


On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com> wrote:
> Hi Colin,
>
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 09:04:22PM +0100, Colin Cross wrote:
>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com> wrote:
>> > Right, ok. This is definitely a different problem though. Firstly, r3p1 is
>> > not affected by the original erratum and secondly the symptoms do not
>> > include deadlock. The clean during boot also sounds highly suspicious -- is
>> > there a chance you boot the kernel with a dirty L2? Is the L2 enabled or
>> > disabled when entering the kernel [I think u8500 has it enabled]?
>>
>> In a previous thread, I wrote that the 4430 I was using had r2p0.  I
>> can't verify the accuracy of that claim right now, but my patch was
>> based on that assumption.  Where are you getting r3p1 from?
>
> Apologies, that's what Santosh mentioned here:
>
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2012-May/101302.html
>
I was mainly talking about OMAP4460 and the WA extension needed
for clean_all along with clean and invalidate.

May be since patch has both changes, for r3px and r2px, the
confusion came in.

Regards
Santosh



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