From 5dab26af1bacad9a7189d904fbc8b4fe8e95dd81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Deacon Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 12:38:54 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ARM: 6784/1: errata: no automatic Store Buffer drain on Cortex-A9 On revisions of the Cortex-A9 prior to r2p0, the Store Buffer does not have any automatic draining mechanism and therefore a livelock may occur if an external agent continuously polls a memory location waiting to observe an update. This workaround defines cpu_relax() as smp_mb(), preventing correctly written polling loops from denying visibility of updates to memory. Acked-by: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Russell King --- arch/arm/Kconfig | 11 +++++++++++ arch/arm/include/asm/processor.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig index ec0f6589af05..d3f2de37a4b7 100644 --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig @@ -1213,6 +1213,17 @@ config ARM_ERRATA_754322 the new ASID. This workaround places two dsb instructions in the mm switching code so that no page table walks can cross the ASID switch. +config ARM_ERRATA_754327 + bool "ARM errata: no automatic Store Buffer drain" + depends on CPU_V7 && SMP + help + This option enables the workaround for the 754327 Cortex-A9 (prior to + r2p0) erratum. The Store Buffer does not have any automatic draining + mechanism and therefore a livelock may occur if an external agent + continuously polls a memory location waiting to observe an update. + This workaround defines cpu_relax() as smp_mb(), preventing correctly + written polling loops from denying visibility of updates to memory. + endmenu source "arch/arm/common/Kconfig" diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/processor.h index 67357baaeeeb..7a1f03c10f1b 100644 --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/processor.h +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/processor.h @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ extern void release_thread(struct task_struct *); unsigned long get_wchan(struct task_struct *p); -#if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ == 6 +#if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ == 6 || defined(CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_754327) #define cpu_relax() smp_mb() #else #define cpu_relax() barrier() -- 2.11.4.GIT