Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] ARM: l2x0: add arm,ecc-enable property for aurora

From: Jan Lübbe
Date: Thu Jun 22 2017 - 10:47:14 EST


Chris,

On So, 2017-06-11 at 22:55 +0000, Chris Packham wrote:
> On 09/06/17 20:58, Jan LÃbbe wrote:
> > On Do, 2017-06-08 at 16:11 +1200, Chris Packham wrote:
> >> + if (of_property_read_bool(np, "arm,ecc-enable")) {
> >> + mask |= L2C_AUX_CTRL_EVTMON_ENABLE;
> >> + val |= L2C_AUX_CTRL_EVTMON_ENABLE;
> >> + } else if (of_property_read_bool(np, "arm,ecc-disable")) {
> >> + mask |= L2C_AUX_CTRL_EVTMON_ENABLE;
> >> + }
> >
> > Unless I misunderstand the code in __l2c_init(), the mask is used to
> > specify the bits to preserve:
> > old_aux = aux = readl_relaxed(l2x0_base + L2X0_AUX_CTRL);
> > aux &= aux_mask;
> > aux |= aux_val;
> >
> > if (old_aux != aux)
> > pr_warn("L2C: DT/platform modifies aux control register: 0x%08x -> 0x%08x\n",
> > old_aux, aux);
> >
> > So the arm,ecc-disable property will have no effect. This probably also
> > applies to patch 2/4. The existing property *-disable code removes the
> > corresponding bit from the mask.
>
> Indeed the disable version should be mask &= ~L2C_AUX_CTRL_EVTMON_ENABLE
> and I was probably a little lazy to have used the L2C EVTMON instead of
> adding AURORA specific ones like you have in your series.
>
> I'll rebase my series on top of yours and send it direct to you so you
> can include it in the overall submission.

While picking up your arm,parity-enable and arm,ecc-enable patches for
my series, I noticed that the mask variable is inverted when merging the
local changes into aux_val/aux_mask at the end of aurora_of_parse. So I
now believe your code is correct. ;) I'd appreciate a close look,
nevertheless.

Regards,
Jan