From: cdall@cs.columbia.edu (Christoffer Dall)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCHv2] arm: fix pmd flushing in map_init_section
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:04:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130614170404.GQ3245@lvm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1371229044-3970-1-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com>
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 05:57:24PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> In e651eab0af: "ARM: 7677/1: LPAE: Fix mapping in alloc_init_section for
> unaligned addresses", the pmd flushing was broken when split out to
> map_init_section. At the end of the final iteration of the while loop,
> pmd will point at the pmd_t immediately after the pmds we updated, and
> thus flush_pmd_entry(pmd) won't flush the newly modified pmds. This has
> been observed to prevent an 11MPCore system from booting.
>
> This patch fixes this by remembering the address of the first pmd we
> update and using this as the argument to flush_pmd_entry.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Cc: R Sricharan <r.sricharan@ti.com>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Christoffer Dall <cdall@cs.columbia.edu>
> Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> ---
> Since v1:
> * Take the incremented value of pmd for !LPAE.
> * Comment why only one cache flush is necessary.
>
> arch/arm/mm/mmu.c | 9 ++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
> index e0d8565..1c66f51 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
> @@ -620,6 +620,7 @@ static void __init map_init_section(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
> unsigned long end, phys_addr_t phys,
> const struct mem_type *type)
> {
> + pmd_t *p;
> #ifndef CONFIG_ARM_LPAE
> /*
> * In classic MMU format, puds and pmds are folded in to
> @@ -633,12 +634,18 @@ static void __init map_init_section(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
> if (addr & SECTION_SIZE)
> pmd++;
> #endif
> + p = pmd;
> +
> do {
> *pmd = __pmd(phys | type->prot_sect);
> phys += SECTION_SIZE;
> } while (pmd++, addr += SECTION_SIZE, addr != end);
>
> - flush_pmd_entry(pmd);
> + /*
> + * We expect a minimum cache line of 8 bytes, so this will flush both
> + * pmd entries with classic tables, and will be a nop for LPAE systems.
> + */
> + flush_pmd_entry(p);
> }
>
> static void __init alloc_init_pmd(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr,
> --
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-14 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-14 16:22 [PATCH] arm: fix pmd flushing in map_init_section Mark Rutland
2013-06-14 16:34 ` Christoffer Dall
2013-06-14 16:48 ` Mark Rutland
2013-06-14 16:54 ` Christoffer Dall
2013-06-14 16:57 ` [PATCHv2] " Mark Rutland
2013-06-14 17:04 ` Christoffer Dall [this message]
2013-06-14 17:29 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-06-14 17:28 ` [PATCH] " Catalin Marinas
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