Re: [PATCH] ARM: ux500: check platform in ux500_l2x0_init

From: Olof Johansson
Date: Wed Jun 26 2013 - 18:49:47 EST


Hi,

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 09:46:08PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 3:30 AM, Olof Johansson <olof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Add compatible checks for ux500. This should probably be moved to generic
> > DT-based probing whenever DT is populated instead, but until then at
> > least don't panic all non-ux500 multiplatform machines.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> > + /* Ick. I wish there was a single compatible value to compare for,
> > + * but there isn't.
> > + */
> > + if (!of_machine_is_compatible("st-ericsson,u8500") &&
> > + !of_machine_is_compatible("st-ericsson,u8540") &&
> > + !of_machine_is_compatible("st-ericsson,u9500") &&
> > + !of_machine_is_compatible("st-ericsson,u8540"))
> > + return -ENODEV;
>
> This is checking u8540 twice and does not account for snowball.

Snowball has a compatible of:

"calaosystems,snowball-a9500", "st-ericsson,u9500"

but yeah, I typoed on the 9540.

> With new platforms coming we cannot just line up all possible
> compat strings like this, we need to rely on the cpu_is* macro
> to be reporting something sane, and I think it does.

Agreed.

> What about just doing this:
>
> From da838c71fb32d63d7e28c14697702ff48088a09b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 21:44:57 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] ARM: ux500: bail out on alien cpus
>
> This makes the l2x0 initialization fail gracefully on non-ux500
> systems.
>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm/mach-ux500/cache-l2x0.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-ux500/cache-l2x0.c b/arch/arm/mach-ux500/cache-l2x0.c
> index f58615b..82ccf1d 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-ux500/cache-l2x0.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-ux500/cache-l2x0.c
> @@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ static int __init ux500_l2x0_init(void)
> if (cpu_is_u8500_family() || cpu_is_ux540_family())
> l2x0_base = __io_address(U8500_L2CC_BASE);
> else
> - ux500_unknown_soc();
> + /* Non-Ux500 platform */
> + return -ENODEV;
>
> /* Unlock before init */
> ux500_l2x0_unlock();

SGTM. Applied to next/late.


-Olof
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