[PATCH v2] [RESEND] Handle instruction cache maintenance fault properly

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed May 12 07:01:27 EDT 2010


On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 11:33 +0100, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> Between "clean D line..." and "invalidate I line" operations in
> v7_coherent_user_range(), the memory page may get swapped out.
> And the fault on "invalidate I line" could not be properly handled
> causing the oops.
> 
> In ARMv6 "external abort on linefetch" replaced by "instruction cache
> maintenance fault". Let's handle it as translation fault. It fixes the
> issue.
> 
> I'm not sure if it's reasonable to check arch version in run-time.
> Let's do it in compile time for now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Siarhei Siamashka <siarhei.siamashka at nokia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill at shutemov.name>

FWIW:

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>

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Catalin




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