[PATCH v2] ARM: Do not run dummy_flush_tlb_a15_erratum() on non-Cortex-A15
Roger Quadros
rogerq at ti.com
Tue Jul 23 10:04:48 EDT 2013
On 07/23/2013 03:06 PM, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> From: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at freescale.com>
>
> Commit 93dc688 (ARM: 7684/1: errata: Workaround for Cortex-A15 erratum 798181
> (TLBI/DSB operations)) causes the following undefined instruction error on a
> mx53 (Cortex-A8):
>
> Internal error: Oops - undefined instruction: 0 [#1] SMP ARM
> CPU: 0 PID: 275 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 3.11.0-rc2-next-20130722-00009-g9b0f371 #881
> task: df46cc00 ti: df48e000 task.ti: df48e000
> PC is at check_and_switch_context+0x17c/0x4d0
> LR is at check_and_switch_context+0xdc/0x4d0
>
> This problem happens because check_and_switch_context() calls
> dummy_flush_tlb_a15_erratum() without checking if we are really running on a
> Cortex-A15 or not.
>
> To avoid this issue, only call dummy_flush_tlb_a15_erratum() inside
> check_and_switch_context() if erratum_a15_798181() returns true, which means
> that we are really running on a Cortex-A15.
>
> Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at freescale.com>
Reviewed-by: Roger Quadros <rogerq at ti.com>
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