[PATCH] arm64: fix invalidation of wrong __early_cpu_boot_status cacheline

[Catalin Marinas]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:36:57AM +0100, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
> On 15/04/16 11:20, Mark Rutland wrote:
> >On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 12:11:21PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >>In head.S, the str_l macro, which takes a source register, a symbol name
> >>and a temp register, is used to store a status value to the variable
> >>__early_cpu_boot_status. Subsequently, the value of the temp register is
> >>reused to invalidate any cachelines covering this variable.
> >>
> >>However, since str_l resolves to
> >>
> >>       adrp    \tmp, \sym
> >>       str     \src, [\tmp, :lo12:\sym]
> >>
> >>the temp register never actually holds the address of the variable but
> >>only of the 4 KB window that covers it, and reusing it leads to the
> >>wrong cacheline being invalidated. So instead, take the address
> >>explicitly before doing the store, and reuse that value to perform
> >>the cache invalidation.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> >>---
> >>
> >>This deserves a cc stable, since the macro is always invoked for each CPU
> >>at boot.
> >
> >Sounds good, also:
> >
> >Fixes: bb9052744f4b7ae1 ("arm64: Handle early CPU boot failures")
> 
> This first appeared in 4.6-rc1, so I don't think we need to Cc stable.

Indeed. I'll add the Fixes line though, for reference.

> The initial patch was using adr_l as in this fix.
> 
> Catalin, was there a specific reason for that change ? I remember you mentioning
> something about it.

I think it was just code reduction.

I'll queue the fix for 4.6-rc.

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin