On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 6:14 AM Yoshihiro Shimoda
<[email protected]> wrote:
> > From: Geert Uytterhoeven, Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 8:36 PM
> > Recent R-Car Gen3 SoCs added an External Request Mask Register to the
> > System Controller (SYSC). This register allows to mask external power
> > requests for CPU or 3DG domains, to prevent conflicts between powering
> > off CPU cores or the 3D Graphics Engine, and changing the state of
> > another power domain through SYSC, which could lead to CPG state machine
> > lock-ups.
> >
> > This patch series starts making use of this register. Note that the
> > register is optional, and that its location and contents are
> > SoC-specific.
> >
> > This was inspired by a patch in the BSP by Dien Pham
> > <[email protected]>.
> >
> > Note that the issue fixed cannot happen in the upstream kernel, as
> > upstream has no support for graphics acceleration yet. SoCs lacking the
> > External Request Mask Register may need a different mitigation in the
> > future.
> >
> > Changes compared to v1[1]:
> > - Improve description of cover letter and first patch.
> >
> > Changes compared to RFC[2]:
> > - Rebased.
> >
> > This has been boot-tested on R-Car H3 ES1.0, H3 ES2.0, M3-W ES1.0, M3-N,
> > V3M, and E3 (only the last 3 have this register!), and regression-tested
> > on R-Car Gen2.
> >
> > This has not been tested on R-Car H3 ES3.0, M3-W ES2.0, and V3H.
>
> I also boot-tested on R-Car H3 ES3.0 and M3-W ES3.0.
> And I reviewed all patches, so:
>
> Reviewed-by: Yoshihiro Shimoda <[email protected]>
Thanks, queued in renesas-devel for v5.5.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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