The DDR PHY training function, ddrphy_prepare_training() would not
work if compiled with GCC 4.9.
The struct ddrphy (arch/arm/include/asm/arch-uniphier/ddrphy-regs.h)
is specified with __packed because it represents a hardware register
mapping, but it turned out to cause a problem on GCC 4.9.
If -mno-unaligned-access is specified (actually it is in
arch/arm/cpu/armv7/config.mk), GCC 4.9 is aware of the
__attribute__((packed)) and generates extra instructions to perform
the memory access in a way that does not cause unaligned access.
(Actually it is bogus here because the register base, the first
argument of the ddrphy_prepare_training(), is always given with a
4-byte aligned address.)
Anyway, as a result, readl() / writel() is divided into byte-wise
accesses. The problem is that this hardware only accepts 4-byte
register access. Byte-wise accesses lead to unexpected behavior.
There are some options to avoid this problem.
[1] Remove -mno-unaligned-access
[2] Add __aligned(4) along with __packed to struct ddrphy
[3] Remove __packed from struct ddrphy
[1] solves the problem for ARMv7, but it does not for pre-ARMv6 and
ARMv6-M architectures where -mno-unaligned-access is default.
So, [1] does not seem reasonable in terms of code portability.
Both [2] and [3] work well, but [2] seems too much. All the members
of struct ddrphy have the u32 type. No padding would be inserted
even if __packed is dropped.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamad...@jp.panasonic.com>
---
arch/arm/include/asm/arch-uniphier/ddrphy-regs.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/arch-uniphier/ddrphy-regs.h
b/arch/arm/include/asm/arch-uniphier/ddrphy-regs.h
index 484559c..6b7d600 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/arch-uniphier/ddrphy-regs.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/arch-uniphier/ddrphy-regs.h
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ struct ddrphy {
u32 gtr; /* General Timing Register */
u32 rsv[3]; /* Reserved */
} dx[9];
-} __packed;
+};
#endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
--
1.9.1
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