[PATCH 3.14 47/73] ARM: 8222/1: mvebu: enable strex backoff delay

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-12-05T22:59:00Z

From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>

commit 995ab5189d1d7264e79e665dfa032a19b3ac646e upstream.

Under extremely rare conditions, in an MPCore node consisting of at
least 3 CPUs, two CPUs trying to perform a STREX to data on the same
shared cache line can enter a livelock situation.

This patch enables the HW mechanism that overcomes the bug. This fixes
the incorrect setup of the STREX backoff delay bit due to a wrong
description in the specification.

Note that enabling the STREX backoff delay mechanism is done by
leaving the bit *cleared*, while the bit was currently being set by
the proc-v7.S code.

[Thomas: adapt to latest mainline, slightly reword the commit log, add
stable markers.]

Fixes: de4901933f6d ("arm: mm: Add support for PJ4B cpu and init routines")

Signed-off-by: Nadav Haklai <nadavh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
@@ -211,7 +211,6 @@ __v7_pj4b_setup:
/* Auxiliary Debug Modes Control 1 Register */
#define PJ4B_STATIC_BP (1 << 2) /* Enable Static BP */
#define PJ4B_INTER_PARITY (1 << 8) /* Disable Internal Parity Handling */
-#define PJ4B_BCK_OFF_STREX (1 << 5) /* Enable the back off of STREX instr */
#define PJ4B_CLEAN_LINE (1 << 16) /* Disable data transfer for clean line */

/* Auxiliary Debug Modes Control 2 Register */
@@ -234,7 +233,6 @@ __v7_pj4b_setup:
/* Auxiliary Debug Modes Control 1 Register */
mrc p15, 1, r0, c15, c1, 1
orr r0, r0, #PJ4B_CLEAN_LINE
- orr r0, r0, #PJ4B_BCK_OFF_STREX
orr r0, r0, #PJ4B_INTER_PARITY
bic r0, r0, #PJ4B_STATIC_BP
mcr p15, 1, r0, c15, c1, 1