Re: [PATCH 3/3] ARM: Work around faulty ISAR0 register in some Krait CPUs

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On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 01:32:01AM +0000, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Some early versions of the Krait CPU design incorrectly indicate
> that they only support the UDIV and SDIV instructions in Thumb
> mode when they actually support them in ARM and Thumb mode. It
> seems that these CPUs follow the DDI0406B ARM ARM which has two
> possible values for the divide instructions field, instead of the
> DDI0406C document which has three possible values.
> 
> Work around this problem by checking the MIDR against Krait CPUs
> with this faulty ISAR0 register and force the detection code
> to indicate support in both modes.
> 
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Stepan Moskovchenko <stepanm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/arm/kernel/setup.c | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

After all this, you might as well just pass the relevant HWCAPs for your
krait entry in proc-v7.S rather than have an exception in the CPU-agnostic
code.

Thanks for adding the detection code though -- we can use that for A7/A15.

Will
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