2013-03-26 11:57:11

by Peter Meerwald-Stadler

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Subject: regarding arm: update ARM_ERRATA_430973 Kconfig

Hello,

regarding your patch against arch/arm/Kconfig:

@@ -1215,7 +1215,7 @@ config ARM_ERRATA_430973
depends on CPU_V7
help
This option enables the workaround for the 430973 Cortex-A8
- (r1p0..r1p2) erratum. If a code sequence containing an ARM/Thumb
+ (r1p*) erratum. If a code sequence containing an ARM/Thumb
interworking branch is replaced with another code sequence at the
same virtual address, whether due to self-modifying code or virtual
to physical address re-mapping, Cortex-A8 does not recover from the


I am seeing strange segfault/illegal instructions fixed by enabling
ARM_ERRATA_430973 on a TI OMAP3 DM3730, r3p2 IMHO (see below)

ARM_ERRATA_430973 is relevant for which processors? have you checked the
errata list? I had no luck obtaining it yet


cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 2 (v7l)
BogoMIPS : 313.29
Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp thumbee neon vfpv3 tls
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x3
CPU part : 0xc08
CPU revision : 2

thanks, p.

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2013-03-28 11:19:32

by Tim Niemeyer

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Subject: Re: regarding arm: update ARM_ERRATA_430973 Kconfig

Hi

Am Dienstag, den 26.03.2013, 12:57 +0100 schrieb Peter Meerwald:
> regarding your patch against arch/arm/Kconfig:
>
> @@ -1215,7 +1215,7 @@ config ARM_ERRATA_430973
> depends on CPU_V7
> help
> This option enables the workaround for the 430973 Cortex-A8
> - (r1p0..r1p2) erratum. If a code sequence containing an ARM/Thumb
> + (r1p*) erratum. If a code sequence containing an ARM/Thumb
> interworking branch is replaced with another code sequence at the
> same virtual address, whether due to self-modifying code or virtual
> to physical address re-mapping, Cortex-A8 does not recover from the
>
>
> I am seeing strange segfault/illegal instructions fixed by enabling
> ARM_ERRATA_430973 on a TI OMAP3 DM3730, r3p2 IMHO (see below)
The only information i have is that it was fixed in r2p1. The statement
is from mru on:
http://www.beagleboard.org/irclogs/index.php?date=2013-02-18#T15:00:07

> ARM_ERRATA_430973 is relevant for which processors? have you checked the
> errata list? I had no luck obtaining it yet
No, i don't have it either.

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