[PATCH v2] RFC: ARM: cache-l2x0: update workaround for PL310 errata 727915

[Santosh Shilimkar]

On Tuesday 22 May 2012 02:22 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi Santosh,
> 
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 07:04:21AM +0100, Shilimkar, Santosh wrote:
>> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Linus Walleij
>> <linus.walleij at stericsson.com> wrote:
>>> From: Colin Cross <ccross at android.com>
>>>
>>> ARM errata 727915 for PL310 has been updated to include a new
>>> workaround required for PL310 r2p0 for l2x0_flush_all, which also
>>> affects l2x0_clean_all in my testing. For r2p0, clean or flush
>>> each set/way individually. For r3p0 or greater, use the debug
>>> register for cleaning and flushing.
>>>
>>> Requires exporting the cache_id, sets and ways detected in the
>>> init function for later use.
>>>
>>> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
>>> Cc: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com>
>>> Cc: Per Fransson <per.fransson.ml at gmail.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross at android.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
>>> ---
>>> I found this thing in the Android tree, it looks like it could
>>> be pretty serious so I'm mailing it out. If it is correct I
>>> guess it should even be tagged for -stable?
>>>
>>> v2: what about actually git commit --amend in the rebase changes
>>> for -rc7? Sorry for the screwup...
>>> ---
>> This was observed on OMAP4460 devices. Though the errata
>> document doesn't support it, the issue seen with l2 clean was
>> indeed fixed $subject fix.
> 
> I'm not sure I follow. Which version of the PL310 is in OMAP4460? Are you
> saying that the current workaround didn't work but the one in this patch
> did? Do you have a testcase?
> 
It's r3p1.
IIRC, the errata fix I did(debug register) was only for flush
(clean & inv) but Colin found in his testing that it's needed
for clean_all as well.

I don't have testcase. Colin might be able to suggest one.

Regards
santosh