Add ARMv7-A irqdisable() inline function

ChangeLog

@@ -5234,4 +5234,7 @@
 	  Wharington, 2013-7-30).
 	* arch/arm/src/stm32/stm32f30xx_i2c.c:  An I2C driver for
 	  the STM32 F3 family from John Wharington (2013-7-30).
+	* arch/arm/include/armv7-m:  Add irqdisable() (2013-7-30);
+	* configs/sama5d3-ek/src/nor_main.c:  Now disables interrupts
+	  before jumping to NOR flash (2013-7-30).
 

TODO

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ nuttx/
   (1)  Documentation (Documentation/)
   (6)  Build system / Toolchains
   (5)  Linux/Cywgin simulation (arch/sim)
-  (5)  ARM (arch/arm/)
+  (4)  ARM (arch/arm/)
   (1)  ARM/C5471 (arch/arm/src/c5471/)
   (3)  ARM/DM320 (arch/arm/src/dm320/)
   (2)  ARM/i.MX (arch/arm/src/imx/)
@@ -1394,9 +1394,10 @@ o ARM (arch/arm/)
                This approach is already implemented for the ARM Cortex-M0,
                Cortex-M3, Cortex-M4, and Cortex-A5 families.  But still needs
                to be back-ported to the ARM7 and ARM9 (which are nearly
-               identical to the Cortex-A5 in this regard).
-  Status:      Open
-  Priority:    Low
+               identical to the Cortex-A5 in this regard).  The change is
+               *very* simple for this architecture, but not implemented.
+  Status:      Open.  But complete on all ARM platforms except ARM7 and ARM9.
+  Priority:    Low.
 
   Title:       IMPROVED ARM INTERRUPT HANDLING
   Description: The ARM and Cortex-M3 interrupt handlers restores all regisers
@@ -1407,19 +1408,6 @@ o ARM (arch/arm/)
   Status:      Open
   Priority:    Low
 
-  Title:       ARM INTERRUPTS AND USER MODE
-  Description: The ARM7/9 interrupt handling (arch/arm/src/arm/up_vectors.S) returns
-               using 'ldmia   sp, {r0-r15}^'  My understanding is that this works
-               fine because everything is in kernel-mode.  In an operating model
-               where applications run in user mode and interrupts/traps run in
-               kernel-mode, I think that there is a problem with this.  This would
-               like be a problem, for example, if for a kernel build where NuttX
-               is built as a monolithic, protected kernel and user mode programs
-               trap into the kernel.
-  Status:      Open
-  Priority:    Low until I get around to implementing security or kernel mode for
-               an ARM7/9 platform.
-
   Title:       CORTEX-M3 STACK OVERFLOW
   Description: There is bit bit logic inf up_fullcontextrestore() that executes on
                return from interrupts (and other context switches) that looks like:
@@ -1439,7 +1427,7 @@ o ARM (arch/arm/)
 
                  ldr pc, [sp], #4
 
-               Under conditions of excessivley high interrupt conditions, many
+               Under conditions of excessively high interrupt conditions, many
                nested interrupts can oocur just after the 'msr cpsr' instruction.
                At that time, there are 4 bytes on the stack and, with each
                interrupt, the stack pointer may increment and possibly overflow.
@@ -1453,6 +1441,9 @@ o ARM (arch/arm/)
                  ldmia     r0, {r0-r15}^
 
                But this has not been proven to be a solution.
+
+               UPDATE:  Other ARM architectures have a similer issue.
+
   Status:      Open
   Priority:    Low.  The conditions of continous interrupts is really the problem.
                If your design needs continous interrupts like this, please try

arch/arm/include/armv7-a/irq.h

@@ -286,6 +286,24 @@ static inline irqstate_t irqenable(void)
   return cpsr;
 }
 
+/* Disable IRQs and return the previous IRQ state */
+
+static inline irqstate_t irqdisable(void)
+{
+  unsigned int cpsr;
+
+  __asm__ __volatile__
+    (
+      "\tmrs    %0, cpsr\n"
+      "\tcpsid  i\n"
+      : "=r" (cpsr)
+      :
+      : "memory"
+    );
+
+  return cpsr;
+}
+
 /* Restore saved IRQ & FIQ state */
 
 static inline void irqrestore(irqstate_t flags)

configs/sama5d3x-ek/src/nor_main.c

@@ -42,11 +42,16 @@
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <debug.h>
 
+#include <arch/irq.h>
+
 #include "up_arch.h"
 #include "mmu.h"
 #include "cache.h"
+
 #include "sam_periphclks.h"
 #include "chip/sam_hsmc.h"
+#include "chip/sam_matrix.h"
+#include "chip/sam_aximx.h"
 
 #include "sama5d3x-ek.h"
 
@@ -116,6 +121,33 @@ int nor_main(int argc, char *argv)
            HSMC_MODE_TDFCYCLES(1);
   putreg32(regval, SAM_HSMC_MODE(HSMC_CS0));
 
+  /* Interrupts must be disabled through the following.  In this configuration,
+   * there should only be timer interupts.  Your NuttX configuration must use
+   * CONFIG_SERIAL_LOWCONSOLE=y or printf() will hang when the interrupts
+   * are disabled!
+   */
+
+  (void)irqdisable();
+
+  /* Set remap state 0.  This is done late in the boot sequence.  Any
+   * exceptions taken before this point in time will be handled by the
+   * ROM code, not by the NuttX interrupt since which was, up to this
+   * point, uninitialized.
+   *
+   *   Boot state:    ROM is seen at address 0x00000000
+   *   Remap State 0: SRAM is seen at address 0x00000000 (through AHB slave
+   *                  interface) instead of ROM.
+   *   Remap State 1: HEBI is seen at address 0x00000000 (through AHB slave
+   *                  interface) instead of ROM for external boot.
+   *
+   * Here we are assuming that vectors reside in the lower end of ISRAM.
+   * Hmmm... this probably does not matter since we will map a page to
+   * address 0x0000:0000 in that case anyway.
+   */
+
+  putreg32(MATRIX_MRCR_RCB0, SAM_MATRIX_MRCR);   /* Enable remap */
+  putreg32(AXIMX_REMAP_REMAP0, SAM_AXIMX_REMAP); /* Remap SRAM */
+
   /* Disable the caches and the MMU.  Disabling the MMU should be safe here
    * because there is a 1-to-1 identity mapping between the physical and
    * virtual addressing.