Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm64: dts: uniphier: change release address of spin-table

[Masahiro Yamada]

Hi Arnd,


2016-04-16 3:48 GMT+09:00 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>:
> On Friday 15 April 2016 22:13:55 Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>> 2016-04-15 22:05 GMT+09:00 Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>:
>> > On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 07:30:47PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>> >> The 8-byte register located at 0x59801200 on this SoC is dedicated
>> >> for waking up secondary CPUs.  We can use it and save normal memory.
>> >
>> > Generally, it is not safe to use MMIO registers to back spin-table. The
>> > kernel maps the spin table location with cacheable attributes, so there
>> > may be speculative accesses to any registes in the same (64K) page, and
>> > a writeback may be larger than the 8-byte register width (which the
>> > device might not accept, triggering an SError).
>> >
>> > Given that, I do not think this is a good idea.
>>
>> I did not know this.  Thanks for your advice!
>>
>>
>> Arnd, Olof
>>
>> Please drop this patch.
>> (I think 1/2 is still OK.)
>>
>
> Should patch 1 be applied as a bugfix for 4.6 instead?
>

Yes, please!


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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada