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From: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH master] ARM: sync_caches_for_execution: don't flush disabled data cache
Date: Thu,  1 Sep 2022 12:41:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220901104136.171051-1-a.fatoum@pengutronix.de> (raw)

We unconditionally clean and then invalidate D-cache entries in
sync_caches_for_execution by calling arm_early_mmu_cache_flush().

The function afterwards takes care to invalidate the I-cache.

This misbehaves though when the D-Cache contains stale dirty
entries for currently executing code. Most boards avoid this
pitfall, because barebox_arm_entry calls
arm_early_mmu_cache_invalidate() and sync_caches_for_execution()
is only called afterwards. But for some boards,
relocate_to_current_adr() is called before barebox_arm_entry and
various board code works around this by calling
arm_early_mmu_cache_invalidate() first.

Make this unnecessary by not flushing the data cache when it's disabled
and instead only invalidate the I-Cache.

This fixes a hang observed on a serial-booted i.MX6Q rev 1.5
executing relocate_to_current_adr() -> sync_caches_for_execution()
from On-Chip SRAM.

Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
---
 arch/arm/cpu/common.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/common.c b/arch/arm/cpu/common.c
index 8cfcc8f6ce7a..5ccacf204751 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/common.c
@@ -23,6 +23,12 @@
  */
 void sync_caches_for_execution(void)
 {
+	/* if caches are disabled, don't do data cache maintenance */
+	if (!(get_cr() & CR_C)) {
+		icache_invalidate();
+		return;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * Despite the name arm_early_mmu_cache_flush not only flushes the
 	 * data cache, but also invalidates the instruction cache.
-- 
2.30.2




             reply	other threads:[~2022-09-01 10:43 UTC|newest]

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2022-09-01 10:41 Ahmad Fatoum [this message]
2022-09-13  8:39 ` Sascha Hauer

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