[PATCH 3/6] arm64: include alternative handling in dcache_by_line_op
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Jun 24 08:32:17 PDT 2016
On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 05:49:47PM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
> The newly introduced dcache_by_line_op macro is used at least in
> one occassion at the moment to issue a "dc cvau" instruction,
> which is affected by ARM errata 819472, 826319, 827319 and 824069.
> Change the macro to allow for alternative patching in there to
> protect affected Cortex-A53 cores.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/mm/proc-macros.S | 9 ++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/proc-macros.S b/arch/arm64/mm/proc-macros.S
> index e6a30e1..5786017 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/proc-macros.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/proc-macros.S
> @@ -78,7 +78,14 @@
> add \size, \kaddr, \size
> sub \tmp2, \tmp1, #1
> bic \kaddr, \kaddr, \tmp2
> -9998: dc \op, \kaddr
> +9998:
> + alternative_if_not ARM64_WORKAROUND_CLEAN_CACHE, (\op == cvau || \op == cvac)
> + dc \op, \kaddr
> + .if (\op == cvau || \op == cvac)
> + alternative_else
> + dc civac, \kaddr
> + alternative_endif
> + .endif
We can revert commit 77ee306c0aea ("arm64: alternatives: add enable
parameter to conditional asm macros"), drop the first patch in this
series and move the .if outside the alternative block (with a
duplication of the "dc \op, \kaddr" line.
--
Catalin
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