[PATCH] powerpc/cpm: Clear muram before it is in use.

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Oct 19 18:18:52 EST 2011


From: Hongjun Chen <Hong-jun.Chen at freescale.com>

We need to ensure that MURAM is in a known and cleared out state before
using it as the bootloader could have utilized it from its own purposes
and left it in an unknown state.

If we don't clear it out we've seen issues with UCC ethernet:
* Multi ethernet interfaces can't work simultanously.
* Multi up/down Ethernet interfaces will halt these ports.
* UCC1 RGMII can't work when kernel boots from some hosts.

Signed-off-by: Kai.Jiang <Kai.Jiang at freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Hongjun Chen <Hong-jun.Chen at freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/sysdev/cpm_common.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/cpm_common.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/cpm_common.c
index d55d0ad..8db10bb 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/cpm_common.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/cpm_common.c
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  *
  * Author: Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>
  *
- * Copyright 2007 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
+ * Copyright 2007-2008,2010 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
  *
  * Some parts derived from commproc.c/cpm2_common.c, which is:
  * Copyright (c) 1997 Dan error_act (dmalek at jlc.net)
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ unsigned long cpm_muram_alloc(unsigned long size, unsigned long align)
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&cpm_muram_lock, flags);
 	cpm_muram_info.alignment = align;
 	start = rh_alloc(&cpm_muram_info, size, "commproc");
+	memset(cpm_muram_addr(start), 0, size);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cpm_muram_lock, flags);
 
 	return start;
-- 
1.7.3.4



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