[PATCH] ARM errata: Possible cache data corruption with hit-under-miss enabled

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Mon Aug 8 09:26:31 EDT 2011


On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 12:43:00PM +0100, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 07:32:28AM +0100, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> >> From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> >>
> >> This patch is a workaround for the 364296 ARM1136 r0pX erratum (possible
> >> cache data corruption with hit-under-miss enabled). It sets the
> >> undocumented bit 31 in the auxiliary control register and the FI bit in
> >> the control register, thus disabling hit-under-miss without putting the
> >> processor into full low interrupt latency mode.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> >> Tested-by: Siarhei Siamashka <siarhei.siamashka at gmail.com>
> >
> > I haven't pushed this workaround in the past as I wasn't sure there is
> > production hardware affected. I recall you mentioned Nokia N800, do you
> > know which CPU revision does this have?
> 
> [    0.000000] CPU: ARMv6-compatible processor [4107b362] revision 2
> (ARMv6TEJ), cr=00e5387f
> [    0.000000] CPU: VIPT aliasing data cache, unknown instruction
> cache
> [    0.000000] Machine: Nokia N810
> [    0.000000] Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
> [    0.000000] OMAP2420
> 
> # cat /proc/cpuinfo
> Processor       : ARMv6-compatible processor rev 2 (v6l)
> BogoMIPS        : 213.72
> Features        : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp java
> CPU implementer : 0x41
> CPU architecture: 6TEJ
> CPU variant     : 0x0
> CPU part        : 0xb36
> CPU revision    : 2
> 
> Hardware        : Nokia N810
> Revision        : 0000
> Serial          : 0000000000000000
...
> Would you be so kind to update the patch?

OK, I'll update it and post the patch in the next day or so.

-- 
Catalin



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