[RFC PATCH] ARM: Fix the bug in dcache flush all API.

sricharan r.sricharan at ti.com
Fri Dec 16 04:02:37 EST 2011


Currently the v7_flush_dcache_all api uses the loc bit field
in clidr register to find out the last level of cache that has to be
flushed to achieve the data coherency. The loc bit field is present in
the register from bits[24:26], but the algorithm uses bits[23:25] as
the loc bit field. Bit[23] which corresponds to the cache type bit of
level 8 is zero in most of the architectures. As a example, for a
level 3 coherency the loc bit field is actually 2, since the bits[23:25]
are used, the loc becomes 4 (multipled by 2) and algorithm compares this
with current cace level * 2, which makes it work. But this wont work starting
from cases where the loc bit field becomes 4, since bits[23:25] will be zeroes.

So correcting this in the algorithm by using 24 as the right shift value
and compare the loc bit field with the current cache level.

Signed-off-by: sricharan <r.sricharan at ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Santosh Shilimkar  <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com>
---
Boot tested this on omap4430sdp.

 arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S b/arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S
index 07c4bc8..868aa1f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ ENTRY(v7_flush_dcache_all)
 	dmb					@ ensure ordering with previous memory accesses
 	mrc	p15, 1, r0, c0, c0, 1		@ read clidr
 	ands	r3, r0, #0x7000000		@ extract loc from clidr
-	mov	r3, r3, lsr #23			@ left align loc bit field
+	mov	r3, r3, lsr #24			@ left align loc bit field
 	beq	finished			@ if loc is 0, then no need to clean
 	mov	r10, #0				@ start clean at cache level 0
 loop1:
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ loop3:
 	bge	loop2
 skip:
 	add	r10, r10, #2			@ increment cache number
-	cmp	r3, r10
+	cmp	r3, r10, lsr #1
 	bgt	loop1
 finished:
 	mov	r10, #0				@ swith back to cache level 0
-- 
1.7.1




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