On this HPE Apollo 70 arm64 server with 256 CPUs, triggering a crash
dump just hung. It has 4 threads on each core. Each 2-core share a same
L1 and L2 caches, so that is 8 CPUs shares those. All CPUs share a same
L3 cache.
It turned out that this was due to the TLB contained stale entries (or
uninitialized junk which just happened to look valid) from the first
kernel before turning the MMU on in the second kernel which caused this
instruction hung,
msr sctlr_el1, x0
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <c...@lca.pw>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
index 4471f570a295..5196f3d729de 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
@@ -771,6 +771,10 @@ ENTRY(__enable_mmu)
msr ttbr0_el1, x2 // load TTBR0
msr ttbr1_el1, x1 // load TTBR1
isb
+ dsb nshst
+ tlbi vmalle1 // invalidate TLB
+ dsb nsh
+ isb
msr sctlr_el1, x0
isb
/*
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