Santosh Shilimkar <[email protected]> writes:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kevin Hilman [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 4:00 AM
>> To: Santosh Shilimkar
>> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/17] omap4: pm: Add GIC save/restore support
> [...]
>
>> > @@ -67,6 +82,17 @@ struct omap4_cpu_pm_info {
>> >
>> >  static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct omap4_cpu_pm_info, omap4_pm_info);
>> >
>> > +/* Helper functions */
>> > +static inline void sar_writel(u32 val, u32 offset, u8 idx)
>> > +{
>> > +  __raw_writel(val, sar_ram_base + offset + 4 * idx);
>> > +}
>>
>> aha, this is what I was thinking of in the earlier SAR patch.
>>
>> Something like this should be part of the SAR code, not here.
>>
> If you remember during the internal review, this helpers
> are added to improve the readability and they are inline
> functions. Same is the case with wakeupgen save code.
>
> If you move this code to SAR file and GIC helper
> to gic file, the save routine will become highly
> un-optimal.
>
> In General Save is like below.
>       Read_Harfware_register()
>       Write_it_sar_location()
>
> This happens for every GIC and wakeupgen
> registers and hence moving this across files
> and calling them from there is going add un-necessary
> stack overhead.
>
> I already got rid-off the global address pointers. I will
> get those now using omap4_get_*_base() and store it for
> local use in the file.

OK, that should be fine.

Thanks,

Kevin

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