ARM errata 430973 on multi platform kernels

[ivo.g.dimitrov.75@gmail.com (Ivaylo Dimitrov)]

On  5.04.2015 19:50, Matthijs van Duin wrote:
> On 5 April 2015 at 09:23, Ivaylo Dimitrov <ivo.g.dimitrov.75@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Though I wonder why SMC is needed to write ACR on non-HS devices. A simple
>> MRC should suffice, unless I miss something.
>
> Public-world access to ACR varies per bit:
> bit 1 (L2EN) is documented as banked, but at least on r3p2 turns out
> to be common r/w.
> bits 30-31 are secure read-only and public RAZ.
> remaining bits are secure read/write and public read-only.
>
> The net effect is that doing an MRC from public world will only modify
> the L2EN bit.
>
> There's no bit in the non-secure access control register to affect all
> of this, so GP vs HS doesn't matter here (from a CPU point of view; it
> may matter for the availability of SM calls obviously).
>
> Matthijs
>

But then the first part(setting the IBE bit in ACR to 1) of the errata 
workaround is wrong, as it uses a plain MCR to set the IBE bit, see 
http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S#L340. Which 
is weird, given that the workaround was posted by ARM iirc.

Ivo