]> rtime.felk.cvut.cz Git - linux-imx.git/commitdiff
powerpc: Add isync to copy_and_flush
authorMichael Neuling <michael.neuling@au1.ibm.com>
Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:30:09 +0000 (00:30 +0000)
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Fri, 26 Apr 2013 06:08:17 +0000 (16:08 +1000)
In __after_prom_start we copy the kernel down to zero in two calls to
copy_and_flush.  After the first call (copy from 0 to copy_to_here:)
we jump to the newly copied code soon after.

Unfortunately there's no isync between the copy of this code and the
jump to it.  Hence it's possible that stale instructions could still be
in the icache or pipeline before we branch to it.

We've seen this on real machines and it's results in no console output
after:
  calling quiesce...
  returning from prom_init

The below adds an isync to ensure that the copy and flushing has
completed before any branching to the new instructions occurs.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S

index 0886ae6dd5be1576ca274b36a8f2c79810622a48..b61363d557b571abee2d1092d8153390ea8c5a6b 100644 (file)
@@ -509,6 +509,7 @@ _GLOBAL(copy_and_flush)
        sync
        addi    r5,r5,8
        addi    r6,r6,8
+       isync
        blr
 
 .align 8