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authorJonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>2013-02-14 07:42:30 +0100
committerJonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>2013-02-17 08:46:10 +0100
commit8668480eb79f0cbd79d6b584a10604d743853062 (patch)
tree2dfe1d8e3867b9bd3c474d7844423112d5ae16d0 /arch/openrisc
parenta81252d75e14cc2cf0ee45078ef143562a0bc279 (diff)
downloadlinux-8668480eb79f0cbd79d6b584a10604d743853062.tar.gz
openrisc: update DTLB-miss handler last
The self-modifying code that updates the TLB handler at start-up has
a subtle ordering requirement:  the DTLB handler must be the last thing
changed.

What I was seeing was the following:

i)   The DTLB handler was updated
ii)  The following printk caused a TLB miss and the look-up resulted
     in the page containing itlb_vector (0xc0000a00) being bounced from
     the TLB.
iii) The subsequent access to itlb_vector caused a TLB miss and reload
     of the page containing itlb_vector from the page tables.
iv)  But this reload of the page in iii) was being done by the "new"
     DTLB-miss handler which resulted (correctly) in the page flags being
     set to read-only; the subsequent write-access to itlb_vector thus
     resulted in a page (access) fault.

This is easily remedied if we ensure that the boot-time DTLB-miss handler
continues running until the very last bit of self-modifying code has been
executed.  This patch should ensure that the very last thing updated is the
DTLB-handler itself.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Acked-by: Julius Baxter <juliusbaxter@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Sebastian Macke <sebastian@macke.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/openrisc')
-rw-r--r--arch/openrisc/mm/init.c17
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/openrisc/mm/init.c b/arch/openrisc/mm/init.c
index 79dea9740a3c..e7fdc50c4bf0 100644
--- a/arch/openrisc/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/openrisc/mm/init.c
@@ -167,15 +167,26 @@ void __init paging_init(void)
 		unsigned long *dtlb_vector = __va(0x900);
 		unsigned long *itlb_vector = __va(0xa00);
 
+		printk(KERN_INFO "itlb_miss_handler %p\n", &itlb_miss_handler);
+		*itlb_vector = ((unsigned long)&itlb_miss_handler -
+				(unsigned long)itlb_vector) >> 2;
+
+		/* Soft ordering constraint to ensure that dtlb_vector is
+		 * the last thing updated
+		 */
+		barrier();
+
 		printk(KERN_INFO "dtlb_miss_handler %p\n", &dtlb_miss_handler);
 		*dtlb_vector = ((unsigned long)&dtlb_miss_handler -
 				(unsigned long)dtlb_vector) >> 2;
 
-		printk(KERN_INFO "itlb_miss_handler %p\n", &itlb_miss_handler);
-		*itlb_vector = ((unsigned long)&itlb_miss_handler -
-				(unsigned long)itlb_vector) >> 2;
 	}
 
+	/* Soft ordering constraint to ensure that cache invalidation and
+	 * TLB flush really happen _after_ code has been modified.
+	 */
+	barrier();
+
 	/* Invalidate instruction caches after code modification */
 	mtspr(SPR_ICBIR, 0x900);
 	mtspr(SPR_ICBIR, 0xa00);