Re: [PATCH] RX-51: ARM errata 430973 workaround

From: Santosh Shilimkar
Date: Mon Apr 01 2013 - 04:32:17 EST


On Sunday 31 March 2013 07:24 PM, Pali RohÃr wrote:
> Closed and signed Nokia X-Loader bootloader stored in RX-51 nand does not set
> IBE bit in ACTLR and starting kernel in non-secure mode. So direct write to
> ACTLR by our kernel does not working and the code for ARM errata 430973 in
> commit 7ce236fcd6fd45b0441a2d49acb2ceb2de2e8a47 that sets IBE bit is a noop.
>
> In order to have workaround for ARM errata 430973 from non-secure world on
> RX-51 we needs Secure Monitor Call to set IBE BIT in ACTLR.
>
> This patch adds RX-51 specific SMC support and sets IBE bit in ACTLR during
> board init code for ARM errata 430973 workaround.
>
> Because all the setup and what arguments are required for SMC are completely
> different from SoC to SoC it is not possible to create generic SMC handling.
> Code in omap-smc.S looks identical but it is not. So RX-51 needs another code.
>
> ARM errata 430973 workaround is needed for thumb-2 ISA compiled userspace
> binaries. Without this workaround thumb-2 binaries crashing. So with this
> patch it is possible to recompile and run applications/binaries with thumb-2
> ISA on RX-51.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ivaylo Dimitrov <freemangordon@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Pali RohÃr <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm/mach-omap2/Makefile | 1 +
> arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-rx51-secure.c | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-rx51-secure.h | 36 +++++++++++++++++
> arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-rx51-smc.S | 34 ++++++++++++++++
> arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-rx51.c | 7 ++++
> 5 files changed, 144 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-rx51-secure.c
> create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-rx51-secure.h
> create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-rx51-smc.S
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-rx51-smc.S b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-rx51-smc.S
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..70e2eb7
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-rx51-smc.S
> @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
You can avoid creating board-rx51-smc.S by having rx51_ppa_smc()
part of board-rx51-secure.c using inline asm. You can avoid the
board-rx51-secure.h as well considering the usage is limited to
the rx51 board.

Regards,
Santosh
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