Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: uniphier: fix up cache ops broadcast of ACTLR

From: Russell King - ARM Linux
Date: Tue Mar 29 2016 - 06:03:27 EST


On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 10:38:23AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> The Boot ROM of the UniPhier ARMv7 SoCs sets ACTLR (Auxiliary Control
> Register) to different values for different secure states:
>
> [1] Set ACTLR to 0x41 for Non-secure boot
> [2] Set ACTLR to 0x40 for Secure boot
>
> [1] is okay, but [2] is a problem. Because of commit 1b3a02eb4523
> ("ARMv7: Check whether the SMP/nAMP mode was already enabled"),
> if bit 6 (SMP bit) is already set, the kernel skips the ACTLR setting.
> In that case, bit 0 (FW bit) is never set, so cache ops is not
> broadcasted, causing a cache coherency problem.
>
> To solve the problem, this commit sets the bit 0 of ACTLR if the bit 4
> has already been set. This change is harmless for [1] because the
> Boot ROM has already set NSACR (Non-secure Access Control Register)
> bit 18 (NS_SMP bit) before switching to Non-secure state in order to
> allow write access to the ACTLR.

The test in proc-v7.S is too weak, we should probably tighten it to
prevent these kinds of problems, iow:

arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
index 0f8963a7e7d9..6fcaac8e200f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
@@ -281,12 +281,12 @@ __v7_ca17mp_setup:
bl v7_invalidate_l1
ldmia r12, {r1-r6, lr}
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+ orr r10, r10, #(1 << 6) @ Enable SMP/nAMP mode
ALT_SMP(mrc p15, 0, r0, c1, c0, 1)
- ALT_UP(mov r0, #(1 << 6)) @ fake it for UP
- tst r0, #(1 << 6) @ SMP/nAMP mode enabled?
- orreq r0, r0, #(1 << 6) @ Enable SMP/nAMP mode
- orreq r0, r0, r10 @ Enable CPU-specific SMP bits
- mcreq p15, 0, r0, c1, c0, 1
+ ALT_UP(mov r0, r10) @ fake it for UP
+ orr r10, r10, r0 @ Set required bits
+ teq r10, r0 @ Were they already set?
+ mcrne p15, 0, r10, c1, c0, 1 @ No, update register
#endif
b __v7_setup_cont



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