u-boot/arch/arm
Masahiro Yamada d6bc30af52 ARM: UniPhier: remove __packed that causes a problem on GCC 4.9
The DDR PHY training function, ddrphy_prepare_training() would not
work if compiled with GCC 4.9.

The struct ddrphy (arch/arm/include/asm/arch-uniphier/ddrphy-regs.h)
is specified with __packed because it represents a hardware register
mapping, but it turned out to cause a problem on GCC 4.9.

If -mno-unaligned-access is specified (yes, it is in
arch/arm/cpu/armv7/config.mk), GCC 4.9 is aware of the
__attribute__((packed)) and generates extra instructions to perform
the memory access in a way that does not cause unaligned access.
(Actually it is not need here because the register base, the first
argument of the ddrphy_prepare_training(), is always given with a
4-byte aligned address.)

Anyway, as a result, readl() / writel() is divided into byte-wise
accesses.  The problem is that this hardware only accepts 4-byte
register access.  Byte-wise accesses lead to unexpected behavior.

There are some options to avoid this problem.

[1] Remove -mno-unaligned-access
[2] Add __aligned(4) along with __packed to struct ddrphy
[3] Remove __packed from struct ddrphy

[1] solves the problem for ARMv7, but it does not for pre-ARMv6 and
ARMv6-M architectures where -mno-unaligned-access is default.
So, [1] does not seem reasonable in terms of code portability.

Both [2] and [3] work well, but [2] seems too much.  All the members
of struct ddrphy have the u32 type.  No padding would be inserted
even if __packed is dropped.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
2015-01-23 00:44:17 +09:00
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cpu sunxi: Restore lowlevel_init usage 2015-01-21 10:46:28 -05:00
dts Merge branch 'master' of git://git.denx.de/u-boot-spi 2015-01-08 13:50:38 -05:00
imx-common imx: i2c: Zap unnecessary malloc() calls 2014-12-30 14:05:48 +01:00
include ARM: UniPhier: remove __packed that causes a problem on GCC 4.9 2015-01-23 00:44:17 +09:00
lib arm: Add warnings about using gdata 2015-01-16 14:52:52 -05:00
mvebu-common arm: kirkwood: Change naming of dram functions from km_foo() to mvebu_foo() 2014-10-23 09:59:21 -04:00
config.mk arm: build arch memset/memcpy in Thumb2 mode 2015-01-09 10:20:22 -05:00
Kconfig ARM: UniPhier: select CONFIG_SPL 2014-12-18 23:34:27 +09:00
Kconfig.debug arm: debug: add Kconfig entries for lowlevel debug 2014-10-26 22:23:12 +01:00
Makefile Kbuild: introduce Makefile in arch/$ARCH/ 2014-12-08 09:35:45 -05:00