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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] [RESEND] Handle instruction cache maintenance fault properly
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On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 11:33 +0100, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> Between "clean D line..." and "invalidate I line" operations in
> v7_coherent_user_range(), the memory page may get swapped out.
> And the fault on "invalidate I line" could not be properly handled
> causing the oops.
>
> In ARMv6 "external abort on linefetch" replaced by "instruction cache
> maintenance fault". Let's handle it as translation fault. It fixes the
> issue.
>
> I'm not sure if it's reasonable to check arch version in run-time.
> Let's do it in compile time for now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Siarhei Siamashka <siarhei.siamashka@nokia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>

FWIW:

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

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Catalin



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