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From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH V2] arm64: add DSB after icache flush in __flush_icache_all()
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 18:07:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140130180706.GO7575@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPrCYkfpGJD+GQBmxqNZ8NM+9LhRvf5HiJrpMxHQzjrmPRhonA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 06:04:43AM +0000, Vinayak Kale wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 07:06:53AM +0000, Vinayak Kale wrote:
> >> V2: - Add more desciption in the commit message as suggested by Catalin & Will
> >>     - Use 'memory' clobber for flush instruction as suggested by Will
> >
> > Please can you check and fix other occurrences of this bug too, as I asked
> > in v1? For example, a 2 second grep shows problems with data-cache
> > maintenance in kvm. I can also see the same problem for system register
> > writes followed up with isb.
> Can you please elaborate whether you are referring to lack of memory
> clobber or missing barriers?

The clobbers. For example:

arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c:

        /* Make sure noone else changes CSSELR during this! */
        local_irq_disable();
        /* Put value into CSSELR */
        asm volatile("msr csselr_el1, %x0" : : "r" (csselr));
        isb();
        /* Read result out of CCSIDR */
        asm volatile("mrs %0, ccsidr_el1" : "=r" (ccsidr));
        local_irq_enable();

Just about everything can be re-ordered in that block, because the asm
volatile statements don't have "memory" clobbers.

I think it's worth checking the rest of the kernel, too.

Will

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-30 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-28  7:06 [PATCH V2] arm64: add DSB after icache flush in __flush_icache_all() Vinayak Kale
2014-01-28 16:14 ` Will Deacon
2014-01-30  6:04   ` Vinayak Kale
2014-01-30 18:07     ` Will Deacon [this message]
2014-01-30 21:42       ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-01-31  0:16         ` Will Deacon
2014-01-31  2:22           ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-01-31 10:48           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-02-03 11:17             ` Will Deacon
2014-02-05  9:36               ` Vinayak Kale

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