[PATCH 03/11] ARM: pm: some ARMv7 requires a dsb in resume to ensure correctness

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed Sep 7 11:41:32 EDT 2011


On 1 September 2011 13:49, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> Add a dsb after the isb to ensure that the previous writes to the
> CP15 registers take effect before we enable the MMU.
>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
> ---
>  arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
> index dec72ee..a773f4e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
> @@ -255,6 +255,7 @@ ENTRY(cpu_v7_do_resume)
>        mcr     p15, 0, r4, c10, c2, 0  @ write PRRR
>        mcr     p15, 0, r5, c10, c2, 1  @ write NMRR
>        isb
> +       dsb

Isn't an ISB enough here? We usually have the DSB for some background
operations like cache maintenance.

-- 
Catalin



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