Re: [PATCH] ARM: cacheflush: Fix exynos build breakage on ARMv6 by using macros for ISB/DSB

From: Nicolas Pitre
Date: Tue Sep 23 2014 - 12:54:24 EST


On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, Kukjin Kim wrote:

> On 09/16/14 21:52, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > This fixes build breakage of platsmp.c if ARMv6 was chosen for compile
> > time options (e.g. by building allmodconfig):
> >
> > $ make allmodconfig
> > $ make
> > CC arch/arm/mach-exynos/platsmp.o
> > /tmp/ccdQM0Eg.s: Assembler messages:
> > /tmp/ccdQM0Eg.s:432: Error: selected processor does not support ARM mode
> > `isb '
> > /tmp/ccdQM0Eg.s:437: Error: selected processor does not support ARM mode
> > `isb '
> > /tmp/ccdQM0Eg.s:438: Error: selected processor does not support ARM mode
> > `dsb '
> > make[1]: *** [arch/arm/mach-exynos/platsmp.o] Error 1
> >
> > The error was introduced in commit "ARM: EXYNOS: Move code from
> > hotplug.c to platsmp.c". Previously code using
> > v7_exit_coherency_flush() macro was built with '-march=armv7-a' flag but
> > this flag dissapeared during the movement.
> >
> > Use isb() and dsb() macros in v7_exit_coherency_flush() so the proper
> > code will be generated for ARMv6.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski<k.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reported-by: Mark Brown<broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Link: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-samsung-soc/msg36790.html
> > ---
> > arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 17 +++++++++++------
> > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
> > b/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
> > index 79ecb4f34ffb..b74eeec971c0 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
> > +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
> > @@ -464,22 +464,27 @@ static inline void __sync_cache_range_r(volatile void
> > *p, size_t size)
> > * CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y. ip is saved as well if ever r12-clobbering
> > * trampoline are inserted by the linker and to keep sp 64-bit aligned.
> > */
> > -#define v7_exit_coherency_flush(level) \
> > +#define v7_exit_coherency_flush(level) do { \
> > asm volatile( \
> > "stmfd sp!, {fp, ip} \n\t" \
> > "mrc p15, 0, r0, c1, c0, 0 @ get SCTLR \n\t" \
> > "bic r0, r0, #"__stringify(CR_C)" \n\t" \
> > "mcr p15, 0, r0, c1, c0, 0 @ set SCTLR \n\t" \
> > - "isb \n\t" \
> > + : : : "r0","r1","r2","r3","r4","r5","r6","r7", \
> > + "r9","r10","lr","memory" ); \
> > + isb(); \
> > + asm volatile( \
> > "bl v7_flush_dcache_"__stringify(level)" \n\t" \
> > "mrc p15, 0, r0, c1, c0, 1 @ get ACTLR \n\t" \
> > "bic r0, r0, #(1<< 6) @ disable local coherency \n\t" \
> > "mcr p15, 0, r0, c1, c0, 1 @ set ACTLR \n\t" \
> > - "isb \n\t" \
> > - "dsb \n\t" \
> > - "ldmfd sp!, {fp, ip}" \
> > : : : "r0","r1","r2","r3","r4","r5","r6","r7", \
> > - "r9","r10","lr","memory" )
> > + "r9","r10","lr","memory" ); \
> > + isb(); \
> > + dsb(); \
> > + asm volatile( \
> > + "ldmfd sp!, {fp, ip}" ); \
> > + } while (0)
> >
> > int set_memory_ro(unsigned long addr, int numpages);
> > int set_memory_rw(unsigned long addr, int numpages);
>
> Hi Russell,
>
> Can you please check this patch? Unfortunately I'm not sure about this, this
> should resolve the build error though...

I don't like this patch at all.

The original assembly sequence was carefully written in a single segment
because it is important that the compiler does not attempt to schedule
anything in the middle. Some definitions of isb() and dsb() need a
temporary register which needs to be allocated and initialized and who
knows what the compiler might do (such as spilling to the stack which
might be fatal here).

Instead, you should insert ".arch armv7-a" in the assembly sequence to
tell the assembler the isb and dsb instructions are going to be executed
on an ARMv7 capable CPU.


Nicolas
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