linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/16] ARM: scu: Provide support for parsing SCU device node to enable SCU

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Date:   Fri, 18 Nov 2016 12:48:07 +0000
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     "pankaj.dubey" <pankaj.dubey@...sung.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>, geert+renesas@...der.be,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@....com>,
        Patrice Chotard <patrice.chotard@...com>, krzk@...nel.org,
        Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...vell.com>, vireshk@...nel.org,
        magnus.damm@...il.com, Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>,
        Wei Xu <xuwei5@...ilicon.com>, thomas.ab@...sung.com,
        "cpgs ." <cpgs@...sung.com>,
        Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
        Ray Jui <rjui@...adcom.com>, horms@...ge.net.au,
        Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@...nsource.altera.com>,
        Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jun Nie <jun.nie@...aro.org>, shiraz.linux.kernel@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/16] ARM: scu: Provide support for parsing SCU device
 node to enable SCU

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 01:14:35PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> @@ -41,6 +43,9 @@ void scu_enable(void __iomem *scu_base)
>  {
>  	u32 scu_ctrl;
>  
> +	if (scu_base)
> +		scu_base = scu_base_addr;
> +

This looks to me like nonsense.

>  #ifdef CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_764369
>  	/* Cortex-A9 only */
>  	if ((read_cpuid_id() & 0xff0ffff0) == 0x410fc090) {
> @@ -85,6 +90,9 @@ int scu_power_mode(void __iomem *scu_base, unsigned int mode)
>  	unsigned int val;
>  	int cpu = MPIDR_AFFINITY_LEVEL(cpu_logical_map(smp_processor_id()), 0);
>  
> +	if (scu_base)
> +		scu_base = scu_base_addr;
> +

Ditto.

Rather than doing this, I'd much prefer to always store the SCU base in
the SCU code, and remove the "void __iomem *scu_base" argment from all
these functions.

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