Thread (25 messages) 25 messages, 7 authors, 2012-02-14

[PATCH] ARM: cache-v7: Disable preemption when reading CCSIDR

From: nico@fluxnic.net (Nicolas Pitre)
Date: 2012-02-03 03:04:07
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On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Stephen Boyd wrote:
On 02/02/12 18:35, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
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On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Stephen Boyd wrote:
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On 02/02/12 17:18, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
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If you simply disable/restore IRQs around the critical region then you 
don't have to worry about __v7_setup.  Plus this will allow for 
v7_flush_dcache_all to still be callable from atomic context.
Ok. Here's a patch. I still need to test it. I'll send another patch
series to cleanup the get_thread_info stuff (there's two of them?).

 arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S b/arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S
index 07c4bc8..654a5fc 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S
@@ -54,9 +54,15 @@ loop1:
 	and	r1, r1, #7			@ mask of the bits for current cache only
 	cmp	r1, #2				@ see what cache we have at this level
 	blt	skip				@ skip if no cache, or just i-cache
+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
+	save_and_disable_irqs r9		@ make cssr&csidr read atomic
+#endif
 	mcr	p15, 2, r10, c0, c0, 0		@ select current cache level in cssr
 	isb					@ isb to sych the new cssr&csidr
 	mrc	p15, 1, r1, c0, c0, 0		@ read the new csidr
+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
+	restore_irqs r9
+#endif
I'd suggest using restore_irqs_notrace instead.  The IRQ-off period is 
so small that there is no point tracing it.
Thanks. I'll make sure to do that before uploading to the patch tracker.
Might be worth flagging this for the stable kernels as well
(CC: stable at kernel.org).


Nicolas
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