Re: [PATCH 1/3] soc: Support for NPS HW scheduling

[Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 05:52:28PM +0300, Noam Camus wrote:
> From: Noam Camus <noamca@mellanox.com>
> 
> This header file is for NPS400 SoC.
> It includes macros for save/restore of HW scheduling.
> Control is done by writing core functional registers.
> This code was moved from arc/plat-eznps so it can be used
> from driver/clocksourec/, available only for CONFIG_EZNPS_MTM_EXT.

drivers/clocksource

> Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamca@mellanox.com>
> ---
>  include/soc/nps/mtm.h |   61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 include/soc/nps/mtm.h
> 
> diff --git a/include/soc/nps/mtm.h b/include/soc/nps/mtm.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..9327010
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/soc/nps/mtm.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
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> +
> +#ifndef SOC_NPS_MTM_H
> +#define SOC_NPS_MTM_H
> +
> +#define CTOP_INST_HWSCHD_OFF_R3                 0x3B6F00BF
> +#define CTOP_INST_HWSCHD_RESTORE_R3             0x3E6F70C3
> +
> +#define DEFINE_SCHD_FLAG(type, name)    type name

What is the purpose of this macro ?

> +static inline void hw_schd_save(unsigned int *flags)
> +{
> +	__asm__ __volatile__(
> +	"       .word %1\n"
> +	"       st r3,[%0]\n"
> +	:
> +	: "r"(flags), "i"(CTOP_INST_HWSCHD_OFF_R3)
> +	: "r3", "memory");
> +}
> +
> +static inline void hw_schd_restore(unsigned int flags)
> +{
> +	__asm__ __volatile__(
> +	"       mov r3, %0\n"
> +	"       .word %1\n"
> +	:
> +	: "r"(flags), "i"(CTOP_INST_HWSCHD_RESTORE_R3)
> +	: "r3");
> +}
> +
> +#endif /* SOC_NPS_MTM_H */
> -- 
> 1.7.1
>