Re: [PATCH 0/9] ARM: renesas: Use SMP jump stub SRAM region from DT

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On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 5:41 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The R-Car Gen2 platform code for CPU core bringup needs to copy a jump
> stub to on-SoC SRAM.  Currently it uses a hardcoded address pointing to
> ICRAM1.
>
> This patch series adds support to specify this region from DT.  It
> consists of 3 parts:
>   - DT binding documentation for reserving SRAM for the jump stub,
>   - A platform code update to retrieve the information from DT, if
>     present (of course backwards-compatibility with old DTBs is
>     preserved),
>   - DT updates to reserve an SRAM region in DT on all R-Car Gen2 and
>     RZ/G1 SoCs.
>
> The DT patches in this series depend on "[PATCH 0/7] ARM: dts: renesas:
> Add Inter Connect RAM".
>
> Note that the current jump stub in Linux is 12 bytes long.  The patches
> reserve 16 bytes of SRAM.  Should this be increased?  The mapping
> granularity is PAGE_SIZE anyway.
>
> Thanks for your comments!
>
> Geert Uytterhoeven (9):
>   dt-bindings: sram: Document renesas,smp-sram
>   ARM: shmobile: rcar-gen2: Obtain jump stub region from DT
>   ARM: dts: r8a7743: Reserve SRAM for the SMP jump stub
>   ARM: dts: r8a7745: Reserve SRAM for the SMP jump stub
>   ARM: dts: r8a7790: Reserve SRAM for the SMP jump stub
>   ARM: dts: r8a7791: Reserve SRAM for the SMP jump stub
>   ARM: dts: r8a7792: Reserve SRAM for the SMP jump stub
>   ARM: dts: r8a7793: Reserve SRAM for the SMP jump stub
>   ARM: dts: r8a7794: Reserve SRAM for the SMP jump stub

Forgot to mention: this has been tested on r8a7790/lager, r8a7791/koelsch,
r8a7792/blanche, r8a7793/gose, and r8a7794/alt (r8a7794 needs an
unrelated fix to enable SMP).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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