Commit 4dd1b7fa authored by Thomas Petazzoni's avatar Thomas Petazzoni Committed by Jason Cooper

ARM: mvebu: improve comments in coherency_ll.S

This commit makes no functional change, it only improves a bit the
various code comments in mach-mvebu/coherency_ll.S, by fixing a few
typos and adding a few more details.
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1400762882-10116-4-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.comAcked-by: default avatarGregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
parent 90ba76f6
......@@ -24,26 +24,32 @@
#include <asm/cp15.h>
.text
/* Returns with the coherency address in r1 (r0 is untouched)*/
/* Returns the coherency base address in r1 (r0 is untouched) */
ENTRY(ll_get_coherency_base)
mrc p15, 0, r1, c1, c0, 0
tst r1, #CR_M @ Check MMU bit enabled
bne 1f
/* use physical address of the coherency register */
/*
* MMU is disabled, use the physical address of the coherency
* base address.
*/
adr r1, 3f
ldr r3, [r1]
ldr r1, [r1, r3]
b 2f
1:
/* use virtual address of the coherency register */
/*
* MMU is enabled, use the virtual address of the coherency
* base address.
*/
ldr r1, =coherency_base
ldr r1, [r1]
2:
mov pc, lr
ENDPROC(ll_get_coherency_base)
/* Returns with the CPU ID in r3 (r0 is untouched)*/
/* Returns the CPU ID in r3 (r0 is untouched) */
ENTRY(ll_get_cpuid)
mrc 15, 0, r3, cr0, cr0, 5
and r3, r3, #15
......@@ -53,18 +59,22 @@ ARM_BE8(rev r3, r3)
mov pc, lr
ENDPROC(ll_get_cpuid)
/* ll_add_cpu_to_smp_group, ll_enable_coherency and
* ll_disable_coherency use strex/ldrex whereas MMU can be off. The
* Armada XP SoC has an exclusive monitor that can track transactions
* to Device and/or SO and as such also when MMU is disabled the
* exclusive transactions will be functional
/*
* ll_add_cpu_to_smp_group(), ll_enable_coherency() and
* ll_disable_coherency() use the strex/ldrex instructions while the
* MMU can be disabled. The Armada XP SoC has an exclusive monitor
* that tracks transactions to Device and/or SO memory and thanks to
* that, exclusive transactions are functional even when the MMU is
* disabled.
*/
ENTRY(ll_add_cpu_to_smp_group)
/*
* r0 being untouched in ll_get_coherency_base and
* ll_get_cpuid, we can use it to save lr modifing it with the
* following bl
* As r0 is not modified by ll_get_coherency_base() and
* ll_get_cpuid(), we use it to temporarly save lr and avoid
* it being modified by the branch and link calls. This
* function is used very early in the secondary CPU boot, and
* no stack is available at this point.
*/
mov r0, lr
bl ll_get_coherency_base
......@@ -82,9 +92,11 @@ ENDPROC(ll_add_cpu_to_smp_group)
ENTRY(ll_enable_coherency)
/*
* r0 being untouched in ll_get_coherency_base and
* ll_get_cpuid, we can use it to save lr modifing it with the
* following bl
* As r0 is not modified by ll_get_coherency_base() and
* ll_get_cpuid(), we use it to temporarly save lr and avoid
* it being modified by the branch and link calls. This
* function is used very early in the secondary CPU boot, and
* no stack is available at this point.
*/
mov r0, lr
bl ll_get_coherency_base
......@@ -104,9 +116,11 @@ ENDPROC(ll_enable_coherency)
ENTRY(ll_disable_coherency)
/*
* r0 being untouched in ll_get_coherency_base and
* ll_get_cpuid, we can use it to save lr modifing it with the
* following bl
* As r0 is not modified by ll_get_coherency_base() and
* ll_get_cpuid(), we use it to temporarly save lr and avoid
* it being modified by the branch and link calls. This
* function is used very early in the secondary CPU boot, and
* no stack is available at this point.
*/
mov r0, lr
bl ll_get_coherency_base
......
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