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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 6/6] ARM: mm: Change the order of TLB/cache maintenance operations.
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 09:46:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131004084643.GJ12758@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1380835081-12129-7-git-send-email-santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>

On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 05:18:00PM -0400, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> From: Sricharan R <r.sricharan@ti.com>
> 
> As per the arm ARMv7 manual, the sequence of TLB maintenance
> operations after making changes to the translation table is
> to clean the dcache first, then invalidate the TLB. With
> the current sequence we see cache corruption when the
> flush_cache_all is called after tlb_flush_all.

This needs testing on ARMv4 CPUs which don't have a way to flush the
cache except by reading memory - hence they need the new page table
entries to be visible to the MMU before calling flush_cache_all().

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-04  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-03 21:17 [PATCH v3 0/6] ARM: mm: Extend the runtime patch stub for PAE systems Santosh Shilimkar
2013-10-03 21:17 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] ARM: mm: use phys_addr_t appropriately in p2v and v2p conversions Santosh Shilimkar
2013-10-03 21:17 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] ARM: mm: Introduce virt_to_idmap() with an arch hook Santosh Shilimkar
2013-10-03 21:17 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] ARM: mm: Move the idmap print to appropriate place in the code Santosh Shilimkar
2013-10-03 21:17 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] ARM: mm: Correct virt_to_phys patching for 64 bit physical addresses Santosh Shilimkar
2013-10-04  0:17   ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-10-04  5:37     ` Sricharan R
2013-10-04 13:02       ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-10-07 19:25         ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-10-07 19:42           ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-10-08 11:43             ` Sricharan R
2013-10-03 21:17 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] ARM: mm: Recreate kernel mappings in early_paging_init() Santosh Shilimkar
2013-10-04  0:23   ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-10-04 15:59   ` Will Deacon
2013-10-04 16:12     ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-10-07 19:34       ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-10-08 10:26         ` Will Deacon
2013-10-08 17:45           ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-10-09 10:06             ` Will Deacon
2013-10-09 18:51               ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-10-03 21:18 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] ARM: mm: Change the order of TLB/cache maintenance operations Santosh Shilimkar
2013-10-04  0:25   ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-10-04  8:46   ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2013-10-04 13:14     ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-10-04 13:19       ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-10-04 15:52   ` Will Deacon
2013-10-04 16:03     ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-10-09 18:56       ` Santosh Shilimkar

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