On Thu, 2017-04-06 at 20:13 +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 06/04/2017 at 18:45:39 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Thu, 2017-04-06 at 10:38 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me
> > > know.
> > >
> > > ------------------
> > >
> > > From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.bell...@free-electrons.com>
> > >
> > > commit 0b0408745e7ff24757cbfd571d69026c0ddb803c upstream.
> > >
> > > LPDDR memories can only handle up to 400 uncontrolled power off. Ensure
> > > the
> > > proper power off sequence is used before shutting down the platform.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.bell...@free-electrons.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <s...@kernel.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
> > [...]
> > > +static void at91_lpddr_poweroff(void)
> > > +{
> > > + asm volatile(
> > > + /* Align to cache lines */
> > > + ".balign 32\n\t"
> > > +
> > > + /* Ensure AT91_SHDW_CR is in the TLB by reading it */
> > > + " ldr r6, [%2, #" __stringify(AT91_SHDW_CR) "]\n\t"
> >
> > This clobbers r6...
> >
> > > + /* Power down SDRAM0 */
> > > + " str %1, [%0, #" __stringify(AT91_DDRSDRC_LPR)
> > > "]\n\t"
> > > + /* Shutdown CPU */
> > > + " str %3, [%2, #" __stringify(AT91_SHDW_CR) "]\n\t"
> > > +
> > > + " b .\n\t"
> > > + :
> > > + : "r" (mpddrc_base),
> > > + "r" cpu_to_le32(AT91_DDRSDRC_LPDDR2_PWOFF),
> > > + "r" (at91_shdwc_base),
> > > + "r" cpu_to_le32(AT91_SHDW_KEY | AT91_SHDW_SHDW)
> > > + : "r0");
> > [...]
> >
> > ...but the clobber list has r0.
> >
>
> Indeed. However, It doesn't matter much as nothing can possibly run
> afterwards.
It does matter because the compiler can use r6 for one of the inputs.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Software Developer, Codethink Ltd.
