Re: [PATCH] ARM: map_init_section flushes incorrect pmd

From: Sricharan R
Date: Tue May 28 2013 - 10:04:37 EST


On Tuesday 28 May 2013 06:35 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:48:20AM +0100, Po-Yu Chuang wrote:
>> This bug was introduced in commit e651eab0.
>> Some v4/v5 platforms failed to boot due to this.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Po-Yu Chuang <ratbert.chuang@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> arch/arm/mm/mmu.c | 4 +++-
>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
>> index e0d8565..19a43f8 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
>> @@ -620,6 +620,8 @@ static void __init map_init_section(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
>> unsigned long end, phys_addr_t phys,
>> const struct mem_type *type)
>> {
>> + pmd_t *p = pmd;
>> +
>> #ifndef CONFIG_ARM_LPAE
>> /*
>> * In classic MMU format, puds and pmds are folded in to
>> @@ -638,7 +640,7 @@ static void __init map_init_section(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
>> phys += SECTION_SIZE;
>> } while (pmd++, addr += SECTION_SIZE, addr != end);
>>
>> - flush_pmd_entry(pmd);
>> + flush_pmd_entry(p);
> Wait, shouldn't this flush be *inside* the loop anyway? Otherwise we just
> flush the cacheline containing the first pmd. The flushing code could also
> flush to PoU instead of PoC for UP ARMv7, but that's an unrelated optimisation.
I think in LPAE this loop iterates once and non LPAE twice.
So both the entries should be contained in same cache line right ?

Regards,
Sricharan
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