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From: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Giancarlo Ferrari <giancarlo.ferrari89@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, penberg@kernel.org,
	geert@linux-m68k.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, rppt@kernel.org,
	giancarlo.ferrari@nokia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: kexec: Fix panic after TLB are invalidated
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2021 16:37:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210201163750.GI1463@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210201163240.GE66060@C02TD0UTHF1T.local>

On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 04:32:40PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> I reckon here we need:
> 
> 	__cpuc_flush_dcache_area(reboot_code_buffer,
> 				 relocate_new_kernel_size + sizeof(*data));
> 
> ... to make sure both the instructions and data are visible with the MMU
> off (since fncpy() only cleans to the PoU, not the PoC).

We don't. When soft_restart() turns the MMU off, and it calls
flush_cache_all() before and afterwards to ensure that all dirty lines
are pushed out.

The flushing to PoU in fncpy() is to cover other cases.

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-01 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-01  0:44 [PATCH] ARM: kexec: Fix panic after TLB are invalidated Giancarlo Ferrari
2021-02-01 11:34 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-02-01 12:47 ` Mark Rutland
2021-02-01 13:03   ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-02-01 13:57     ` Mark Rutland
2021-02-01 16:08       ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-02-01 16:32         ` Mark Rutland
2021-02-01 16:37           ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin [this message]
2021-02-01 20:07         ` Giancarlo Ferrari
2021-02-01 20:16           ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-02-01 22:18             ` Giancarlo Ferrari
2021-02-04 23:48               ` Giancarlo Ferrari
2021-02-05  0:18                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-02-05  0:40                   ` Giancarlo Ferrari
2021-02-05  0:45                     ` Giancarlo Ferrari
2021-02-05  9:44                     ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-02-05 14:36                       ` Giancarlo Ferrari
2021-02-01 14:39   ` Giancarlo Ferrari
2021-02-01 15:30     ` Mark Rutland
2021-02-01 19:09       ` Giancarlo Ferrari
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-01-12 16:49 Giancarlo Ferrari
2021-02-01 10:10 ` Giancarlo Ferrari

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