Re: [PATCH] ARM: cache-v7: Disable preemption when reading CCSIDR

[Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 02:03:49AM +0000, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> armv7's flush_cache_all() flushes caches via set/way. To
> determine the cache attributes (line size, number of sets,
> etc.) the assembly first writes the CSSELR register to select a
> cache level and then reads the CCSIDR register. The CSSELR register
> is banked per-cpu and is used to determine which cache level CCSIDR
> reads. If the task is migrated between when the CSSELR is written and
> the CCSIDR is read the CCSIDR value may be for an unexpected cache
> level (for example L1 instead of L2) and incorrect cache flushing
> could occur.
> 
> Disable interrupts across the write and read so that the correct
> cache attributes are read and used for the cache flushing
> routine. We disable interrupts instead of disabling preemption
> because the critical section is only 3 instructions and we want
> to call v7_dcache_flush_all from __v7_setup which doesn't have a
> full kernel stack with a struct thread_info.
> 
> This fixes a problem we see in scm_call() when flush_cache_all()
> is called from preemptible context and sometimes the L2 cache is
> not properly flushed out.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

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Catalin