Re: [PATCHv2 3/3] ARM: Work around faulty ISAR0 register in someKrait CPUs

From: Will Deacon
Date: Mon Mar 18 2013 - 14:34:54 EST


On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 06:28:57PM +0000, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> From: Stepan Moskovchenko <stepanm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Some early versions of the Krait CPU design incorrectly indicate
> that they only support the UDIV and SDIV instructions in Thumb
> mode when they actually support them in ARM and Thumb mode. It
> seems that these CPUs follow the DDI0406B ARM ARM which has two
> possible values for the divide instructions field, instead of the
> DDI0406C document which has three possible values.
>
> Work around this problem by checking the MIDR against Krait CPUs
> with this faulty ISAR0 register and force the hwcaps to indicate
> support in both modes.
>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Stepan Moskovchenko <stepanm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> [sboyd: Rewrote commit text to reflect real reasoning now that
> we autodetect udiv/sdiv]
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S | 15 +++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>

Will
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