Re: [PATCH V2] MIPS: flush TLB handlers before calling them

["Steven J. Hill" <Steven.Hill@imgtec.com>]

On 06/20/2013 03:29 PM, Jonas Gorski wrote:
> When having enabled MIPS_PGD_C0_CONTEXT, trap_init() might call the
> generated tlbmiss_handler_setup_pgd before it was committed to memory,
> causing boot failures:
>
>    trap_init()
>     |- per_cpu_trap_init()
>     |   |- TLBMISS_HANDLER_SETUP()
>     |       |- tlbmiss_handler_setup_pgd()
>     |- flush_tlb_handlers()
>
> To avoid this, move flush_tlb_handlers() into per_cpu_trap_init() to
> ensure the generated handler is always committed on all cpus.
>
> This issue was introduced in 3d8bfdd0307223de678962f1c1907a7cec549136
> ("MIPS: Use C0_KScratch (if present) to hold PGD pointer.").
>
> Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski <jogo@openwrt.org>
> ---
>
> V1 -> V2:
>   * Move flush_tlb_handlers into per_cpu_trap_init() to also fix it for
>     !boot_cpu.
>
Great work on finding this! This works on Malta with a 1074K in
uniprocessor and SMP kernel configurations. Linking a microMIPS kernel
is still broken as evidenced with:

    mips-linux-gnu-ld: arch/mips/built-in.o: .cpuinit.text+0x1572:
    Unsupported jump between ISA modes; consider recompiling with
    interlinking enabled.
    mips-linux-gnu-ld: final link failed: Bad value
    make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

The array:

    u32 tlbmiss_handler_setup_pgd_array[16] __cacheline_aligned;

Needs to be replaced using the method in the commit "MIPS: Refactor
'clear_page' and 'copy_page' functions." with hash
c022630633624a75b3b58f43dd3c6cc896a56cff.

-Steve