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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