[PATCH] ARM: cacheflush: Fix exynos build breakage on ARMv6 by using macros for ISB/DSB

Nicolas Pitre nicolas.pitre at linaro.org
Tue Sep 23 09:54:16 PDT 2014


On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, Kukjin Kim wrote:

> On 09/16/14 21:52, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > This fixes build breakage of platsmp.c if ARMv6 was chosen for compile
> > time options (e.g. by building allmodconfig):
> >
> > $ make allmodconfig
> > $ make
> >    CC      arch/arm/mach-exynos/platsmp.o
> > /tmp/ccdQM0Eg.s: Assembler messages:
> > /tmp/ccdQM0Eg.s:432: Error: selected processor does not support ARM mode
> > `isb '
> > /tmp/ccdQM0Eg.s:437: Error: selected processor does not support ARM mode
> > `isb '
> > /tmp/ccdQM0Eg.s:438: Error: selected processor does not support ARM mode
> > `dsb '
> > make[1]: *** [arch/arm/mach-exynos/platsmp.o] Error 1
> >
> > The error was introduced in commit "ARM: EXYNOS: Move code from
> > hotplug.c to platsmp.c".  Previously code using
> > v7_exit_coherency_flush() macro was built with '-march=armv7-a' flag but
> > this flag dissapeared during the movement.
> >
> > Use isb() and dsb() macros in v7_exit_coherency_flush() so the proper
> > code will be generated for ARMv6.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski<k.kozlowski at samsung.com>
> > Reported-by: Mark Brown<broonie at kernel.org>
> > Link: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-samsung-soc/msg36790.html
> > ---
> >   arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 17 +++++++++++------
> >   1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
> > b/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
> > index 79ecb4f34ffb..b74eeec971c0 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
> > +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
> > @@ -464,22 +464,27 @@ static inline void __sync_cache_range_r(volatile void
> > *p, size_t size)
> >    *   CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y.  ip is saved as well if ever r12-clobbering
> >    *   trampoline are inserted by the linker and to keep sp 64-bit aligned.
> >    */
> > -#define v7_exit_coherency_flush(level) \
> > +#define v7_exit_coherency_flush(level) do { \
> >    asm volatile( \
> >    "stmfd	sp!, {fp, ip} \n\t" \
> >    "mrc	p15, 0, r0, c1, c0, 0	@ get SCTLR \n\t" \
> >    "bic	r0, r0, #"__stringify(CR_C)" \n\t" \
> >    "mcr	p15, 0, r0, c1, c0, 0	@ set SCTLR \n\t" \
> > -	"isb	\n\t" \
> > +	: : : "r0","r1","r2","r3","r4","r5","r6","r7", \
> > +	      "r9","r10","lr","memory" ); \
> > +	isb(); \
> > +	asm volatile( \
> >    "bl	v7_flush_dcache_"__stringify(level)" \n\t" \
> >    "mrc	p15, 0, r0, c1, c0, 1	@ get ACTLR \n\t" \
> >    "bic	r0, r0, #(1<<  6)	@ disable local coherency \n\t" \
> >    "mcr	p15, 0, r0, c1, c0, 1	@ set ACTLR \n\t" \
> > -	"isb	\n\t" \
> > -	"dsb	\n\t" \
> > -	"ldmfd	sp!, {fp, ip}" \
> > : : : "r0","r1","r2","r3","r4","r5","r6","r7", \
> > -	      "r9","r10","lr","memory" )
> > +	      "r9","r10","lr","memory" ); \
> > +	isb(); \
> > +	dsb(); \
> > +	asm volatile( \
> > +	"ldmfd	sp!, {fp, ip}" ); \
> > +	} while (0)
> >
> >   int set_memory_ro(unsigned long addr, int numpages);
> >   int set_memory_rw(unsigned long addr, int numpages);
> 
> Hi Russell,
> 
> Can you please check this patch? Unfortunately I'm not sure about this, this
> should resolve the build error though...

I don't like this patch at all.

The original assembly sequence was carefully written in a single segment 
because it is important that the compiler does not attempt to schedule 
anything in the middle.  Some definitions of isb() and dsb() need a 
temporary register which needs to be allocated and initialized and who 
knows what the compiler might do (such as spilling to the stack which 
might be fatal here).

Instead, you should insert ".arch armv7-a" in the assembly sequence to 
tell the assembler the isb and dsb instructions are going to be executed 
on an ARMv7 capable CPU.


Nicolas



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