Re: [PATCH] ARM: hw_breakpoint: Enable debug powerdown only if systemsupports 'has_ossr'

[Santosh Shilimkar]

Will,

On Wednesday 13 March 2013 05:59 PM, Lokesh Vutla wrote:
> Hi Dietmar,
> On Wednesday 13 March 2013 05:35 PM, Dietmar Eggemann wrote:
>> On 13/03/13 06:52, Lokesh Vutla wrote:
>>> Commit {9a6eb31 ARM: hw_breakpoint: Debug powerdown support for
>>> self-hosted
>>> debug} introduces debug powerdown support for self-hosted debug.
>>> While merging the patch 'has_ossr' check was removed which
>>> was needed for hardwares which doesn't support self-hosted debug.
>>> Pandaboard (A9) is one such hardware and Dietmar's orginial
>>> patch did mention this issue.
>>> Without that check on Panda with CPUIDLE enabled, a flood of
>>> below messages thrown.
>>>
>>> [ 3.597930] hw-breakpoint: CPU 0 failed to disable vector catch
>>> [ 3.597991] hw-breakpoint: CPU 1 failed to disable vector catch
>>>
>>
>> Hi Lokesh,
>>
>> I confirm that this has_ossr condition has to go back into the
>> pm_init(void) call. I just verified it again on my Panda board and I get
>> the same issue like you without it.
>>
>> I guess what was happening is that Will asked me if this check is really
>> necessary and I said No without re-testing on my Panda board as an V7
>> debug architecture example where OSSR is not implemented. Since then I
>> only tested in on V7.1 debug architectures where OSSR is mandatory.
>> Sorry about this and thanks for catching this.
> Thanks for confirming..:)
> 
Can you please queue this one for 3.9-rc2+ ? Without this patch
CPUIDLE is unusable on OMAP4 devices because of those flood
of warning messages.

I was also wondering whether we should just warn once rather
than continuous warnings in the notifier. Patch is end of the
email.

Regards,
Santosh