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>On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Vishwanath Sripathy wrote:
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>> Hi All,
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>> Purpose of this email is to debate on the pros and cons of having a common
>> ARM context save/restore code.
>> Currently each SOC has its own way of saving/restoring ARM registers and
>> there has been a proposal to have a common code for the same instead of
>> duplicating the same in different places.
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>Hmmmmm, what?
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>Could you elaborate? I'm afraid I'm not following you.
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>The kernel as I know it has a common code path to save/restore registers
>on context switch simply because all SOCs that I'm aware of all have the
>same general registers to save/restore on context switch.
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>There are exceptions for some specialized registers, such as the XScale
>WMMX registers, the Cirrus MaverickCrunch registers, the VFP registers
>or the emulated FPA registers, etc. But those are nicely abstracted
>away from the common code through runtime registered thread notifier
>callbacks.
I think what you are referring to is General Purpose ARM Registers which I agree are saved whenever there is a context switch. What I am talking here is other ARM registers like various Auxiliary Control regs (refer to arch/arm/mach_omap2/sleep34xx.s for complete details) which are completely lost when MPU enters OFF state in CPU Idle/suspend path.
Vishwa
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>Nicolas