From: Mark Rutland Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:50:27 +0000 (+0000) Subject: arm64: head.S: ensure visibility of page tables X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=91d57155dc5ab4b311624b7ee570339b6af19ad5;p=linux-beck.git arm64: head.S: ensure visibility of page tables After writing the page tables, we use __inval_cache_range to invalidate any stale cache entries. Strongly Ordered memory accesses are not ordered w.r.t. cache maintenance instructions, and hence explicit memory barriers are required to provide this ordering. However, __inval_cache_range was written to be used on Normal Cacheable memory once the MMU and caches are on, and does not have any barriers prior to the DC instructions. This patch adds a DMB between the page tables being written and the corresponding cachelines being invalidated, ensuring that the invalidation makes the new data visible to subsequent cacheable accesses. A barrier is not required before the prior invalidate as we do not access the page table memory area prior to this, and earlier barriers in preserve_boot_args and set_cpu_boot_mode_flag ensures ordering w.r.t. any stores performed prior to entering Linux. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Will Deacon Fixes: c218bca74eeafa2f ("arm64: Relax the kernel cache requirements for boot") Signed-off-by: Will Deacon --- diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S index 51c9811e683c..bbc474cd0ca8 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S @@ -458,6 +458,7 @@ __create_page_tables: */ mov x0, x25 add x1, x26, #SWAPPER_DIR_SIZE + dmb sy bl __inval_cache_range mov lr, x27