ARM: 8129/1: errata: work around Cortex-A15 erratum 830321 using dummy strex

On revisions of Cortex-A15 prior to r3p3, a CLREX instruction at PL1 may
falsely trigger a watchpoint exception, leading to potential data aborts
during exception return and/or livelock.

This patch resolves the issue in the following ways:

  - Replacing our uses of CLREX with a dummy STREX sequence instead (as
    we did for v6 CPUs).

  - Removing the clrex code from v7_exit_coherency_flush and derivatives,
    since this only exists as a minor performance improvement when
    non-cached exclusives are in use (Linux doesn't use these).

Benchmarking on a variety of ARM cores revealed no measurable
performance difference with this change applied, so the change is
performed unconditionally and no new Kconfig entry is added.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Mark Rutland
2014-08-15 12:11:50 +01:00
提交者 Russell King
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@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@
"mcr p15, 0, r0, c1, c0, 0 @ set SCTLR\n\t" \
"isb\n\t"\
"bl v7_flush_dcache_"__stringify(level)"\n\t" \
"clrex\n\t"\
"mrc p15, 0, r0, c1, c0, 1 @ get ACTLR\n\t" \
"bic r0, r0, #(1 << 6) @ disable local coherency\n\t" \
/* Dummy Load of a device register to avoid Erratum 799270 */ \