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[1/2] ARM: build ssi-fiq.S in ARM mode to prevent CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL build breakage

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Matt Sealey Aug. 7, 2012, 10:45 p.m. UTC
If i.MX SSI FIQ support is enabled then it is impossible to build a Thumb2
kernel image due to the code not being written with Thumb2 in mind (over-use
of registers). In order not to break Thumb2 kernels, compile this as ARM. All
the processors which require this support will run ARM code so there is no
problem at runtime in doing this, even if it does produce a strange mix of
code that may not be desired.

In theory this should only be needed on configs based on imx_v4_v5_defconfig
where CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL cannot be selected anyway since these SoCs do not
have ARM cores capable of running Thumb2 code. This also makes rewriting the
code as Thumb-compatible kind of redundant. But since one Eukrea board audio
driver needs it, and there is an i.MX51 CPU module for this board, it gets
pulled in for imx_v6_v7_defconfig too, making this a necessity.

Signed-off-by: Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
---
 arch/arm/plat-mxc/ssi-fiq.S |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Comments

Sascha Hauer Aug. 8, 2012, 6:55 a.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 05:45:13PM -0500, Matt Sealey wrote:
> If i.MX SSI FIQ support is enabled then it is impossible to build a Thumb2
> kernel image due to the code not being written with Thumb2 in mind (over-use
> of registers). In order not to break Thumb2 kernels, compile this as ARM. All
> the processors which require this support will run ARM code so there is no
> problem at runtime in doing this, even if it does produce a strange mix of
> code that may not be desired.
> 
> In theory this should only be needed on configs based on imx_v4_v5_defconfig
> where CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL cannot be selected anyway since these SoCs do not
> have ARM cores capable of running Thumb2 code. This also makes rewriting the
> code as Thumb-compatible kind of redundant. But since one Eukrea board audio
> driver needs it, and there is an i.MX51 CPU module for this board, it gets
> pulled in for imx_v6_v7_defconfig too, making this a necessity.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/plat-mxc/ssi-fiq.S |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/plat-mxc/ssi-fiq.S b/arch/arm/plat-mxc/ssi-fiq.S
> index 8397a2d..ac09af8 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/plat-mxc/ssi-fiq.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/plat-mxc/ssi-fiq.S
> @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
>  #define SSI_SIER_RFF0_EN	(1 << 2)
>  
>  		.text
> +		.arm
>  		.global	imx_ssi_fiq_start
>  		.global	imx_ssi_fiq_end
>  		.global imx_ssi_fiq_base

I think it would be better to add a depends on !THUMB2_KERNEL to
SND_IMX_SOC_PCM_FIQ. The above may result in broken code in a thumb2
kernel, so I'd rather keep the compile error instead.

Sascha
Matt Sealey Aug. 8, 2012, 5:32 p.m. UTC | #2
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:55 AM, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> wrote:
>>               .text
>> +             .arm
>>               .global imx_ssi_fiq_start
>>               .global imx_ssi_fiq_end
>>               .global imx_ssi_fiq_base
>
> I think it would be better to add a depends on !THUMB2_KERNEL to
> SND_IMX_SOC_PCM_FIQ. The above may result in broken code in a thumb2
> kernel, so I'd rather keep the compile error instead.

I'm curious as to how/why would it result in broken code? It's not
possible that the processors relying on
the imx_ssi_fiq_* stuff cannot run ARM code (unless Freescale shipped
a weird version) so it should
magically enter and exit. I wonder if it needs some thumb-interworking
stuff wrapped around it though.
You'd know better than me..

I'm a little worried that making it !CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL would
basically make more than
one of the boards in imx_v6_v7_defconfig suddenly lose audio support
for no other reason.. I don't
like things just disappearing from the kernel by dependency magic.
That said, a crash would be worse.

I guess the eukrea tlv320 audio support should also be split, or
looked at. This is the snippet that
confuses me the most;

config SND_SOC_EUKREA_TLV320
        tristate "Eukrea TLV320"
        depends on MACH_EUKREA_MBIMX27_BASEBOARD \
                || MACH_EUKREA_MBIMXSD25_BASEBOARD \
                || MACH_EUKREA_MBIMXSD35_BASEBOARD \
                || MACH_EUKREA_MBIMXSD51_BASEBOARD
        depends on I2C
        select SND_SOC_TLV320AIC23
        select SND_SOC_IMX_PCM_FIQ
        select SND_SOC_IMX_AUDMUX
        select SND_SOC_IMX_SSI
        help
          Enable I2S based access to the TLV320AIC23B codec attached
          to the SSI interface

.. Since you said I2S support doesn't require it, only AC97, this alone seems
redundant, but since I wasn't the one to write it, test it, have no
access to this
board I have no idea. Mark's assertion that it's just not required now DMA works
properly, could be true and this can be ditched, but I don't want to
patch something
I can't actually test.. my primary concern was fixing the build breakage.

If that gets fixed, then the only dependencies are the WM1131_EV1 board
which isn't in imx_v6_v7_defconfig, and the phyCORE support which needs it
for AC97. That's one of your customers, right? I wouldn't want to disable a
board, but I can justify to myself disabling the audio for *one* board based if
it's just a caveat of a Thumb2 kernel.

I'm going to do a trapse through and find where Russell nacked Dave's
thumb-aware
rewrite.. would you mind if you have any of these boards seeing if it
really DOES
cause broken code? The moment we noticed this was broken we quit designing
with AC97 codecs, so there's no Genesi board of similar pedigree
around that ever
got to a PCB..
Sascha Hauer Aug. 8, 2012, 7:27 p.m. UTC | #3
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 12:32:39PM -0500, Matt Sealey wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:55 AM, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> >>               .text
> >> +             .arm
> >>               .global imx_ssi_fiq_start
> >>               .global imx_ssi_fiq_end
> >>               .global imx_ssi_fiq_base
> >
> > I think it would be better to add a depends on !THUMB2_KERNEL to
> > SND_IMX_SOC_PCM_FIQ. The above may result in broken code in a thumb2
> > kernel, so I'd rather keep the compile error instead.
> 
> I'm curious as to how/why would it result in broken code? It's not
> possible that the processors relying on
> the imx_ssi_fiq_* stuff cannot run ARM code (unless Freescale shipped
> a weird version) so it should
> magically enter and exit. I wonder if it needs some thumb-interworking
> stuff wrapped around it though.
> You'd know better than me..

Currently I don't know if the code compiled in arm mode on an otherwise
thumb2 kernel does work and I do not have a thumb2 capacle hardware with
sound support to test this.

> 
> I'm a little worried that making it !CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL would
> basically make more than
> one of the boards in imx_v6_v7_defconfig suddenly lose audio support
> for no other reason..

Obviously no v6_v7 board does use this code as it is, because it does
not compile. So there's no risk of breaking something if we just disable
FIQ support in thumb2 mode.

Better disable an unused feature than add some untested code.

Sascha
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Patch

diff --git a/arch/arm/plat-mxc/ssi-fiq.S b/arch/arm/plat-mxc/ssi-fiq.S
index 8397a2d..ac09af8 100644
--- a/arch/arm/plat-mxc/ssi-fiq.S
+++ b/arch/arm/plat-mxc/ssi-fiq.S
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ 
 #define SSI_SIER_RFF0_EN	(1 << 2)
 
 		.text
+		.arm
 		.global	imx_ssi_fiq_start
 		.global	imx_ssi_fiq_end
 		.global imx_ssi_fiq_base