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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3] MIPS: Add barrier between dcache & icache flushes
On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 11:16:03AM +0000, Matt Redfearn wrote:
> Index-based cache operations may be arbitrarily reordered by out of
> order CPUs. Thus code which writes back the dcache & then invalidates
> the icache using indexed cache ops must include a barrier between
> operating on the 2 caches in order to prevent the scenario in which:
>
> - icache invalidation occurs.
> - icache fetch occurs, due to speculation.
> - dcache writeback occurs.
>
> If the above were allowed to happen then the icache would contain stale
> data. Forcing the dcache writeback to complete before the icache
> invalidation avoids this.
>
> Similarly, the MIPS CM version 2 and above serialises D->I hit-based
> cache operations to the same address, but older CMs and systems without
> a MIPS CM do not and require the same barrier to ensure ordering.
>
> To ensure these conditions, always enforce a barrier between D and I
> cache operations.
>
> Suggested-by: Leonid Yegoshin <Leonid.Yegoshin@mips.com>
> Suggested-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
> Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@mips.com>
> Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@mips.com>
> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.9+

Looks reasonable to me,

Reviewed-by: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>

Cheers
James

> ---
>
> arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c b/arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c
> index ce7a54223504..b7186d47184b 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c
> @@ -741,6 +741,9 @@ static inline void __local_r4k_flush_icache_range(unsigned long start,
> else
> blast_dcache_range(start, end);
> }
> +
> + /* Ensure dcache operation has completed */
> + mb();
> }
>
> if (type == R4K_INDEX ||
> --
> 2.7.4
>

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