[PATCH] ARM: Add L2 cache handling to smp boot support

Russell King linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Thu Mar 4 14:11:57 EST 2010


The page table and secondary data which we're asking the secondary CPU
to make use of has to hit RAM to ensure that the secondary CPU can see
it since it may not be taking part in coherency or cache searches at
this point.

Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
---
 arch/arm/kernel/smp.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
index 57162af..577543f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ int __cpuinit __cpu_up(unsigned int cpu)
 	*pmd = __pmd((PHYS_OFFSET & PGDIR_MASK) |
 		     PMD_TYPE_SECT | PMD_SECT_AP_WRITE);
 	flush_pmd_entry(pmd);
+	outer_clean_range(__pa(pmd), __pa(pmd + 1));
 
 	/*
 	 * We need to tell the secondary core where to find
@@ -106,7 +107,8 @@ int __cpuinit __cpu_up(unsigned int cpu)
 	 */
 	secondary_data.stack = task_stack_page(idle) + THREAD_START_SP;
 	secondary_data.pgdir = virt_to_phys(pgd);
-	wmb();
+	__cpuc_flush_dcache_area(&secondary_data, sizeof(secondary_data));
+	outer_clean_range(__pa(&secondary_data), __pa(&secondary_data + 1));
 
 	/*
 	 * Now bring the CPU into our world.



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