> -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Hilman [mailto:khilman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 2:40 AM > To: Nishanth Menon > Cc: Santosh Shilimkar; linux-omap; Jean Pihet; Vishwanath Sripathy; Tony > Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/13] OMAP3: PM: Deny MPU idle while saving secure > RAM > > Nishanth Menon <nm@xxxxxx> writes: > > > Kevin Hilman had written, on 11/19/2010 02:55 PM, the following: > > [...] > >> Now, based on what you say below, it seems like there is no way to > >> guarantee that SMIs don't do this, so I guess we have no choice but to > >> protect them all. > > In that way, I do like the patch from Santosh - with the relevant > > changes we will need to incorporate. Do keep in mind that SMI is a > > secure service - In theory, there could be(and to my knowledge, are) > > custom secure services to do all kind of other things that are not > > power management related[1] - > > All the more reason that this secure mode code should be moved out of > the core idle path into its own driver. > I also think this is better idea. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
