Hi, On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 03:05:42PM +0300, Ивайло Димитров wrote: > Yep, the code looks almost identical, I guess with some tweaks all SMC > code from that patch could be removed and instead used the one from SMC > PPA API. > > What I don't get, is why one needs to disable/enable fiqs/irqs: [..] > Do you have any idea why is that needed? Any other code I've ever seen > to call SM, does not disable fiqs/irqs, is RNG SMC somehow special? I > know this is Nokia's code, but still, if we can get some understanding... I think without disabling irqs you may suffer some strange crashes when heavily stressing the RNG... that's why you also have cache flushes before and after the SMC. With proper test suite you could probably verify this. How are you testing this driver? A. -- 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
