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authorMichael Neuling <michael.neuling@au1.ibm.com>2013-04-24 00:30:09 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-05-07 19:57:20 -0700
commit74f31cf3c186bc0189ad560fadfc03dd9aa2f806 (patch)
treea80837e73826ab7ec51d2ef6b90b9fd3eaad2449 /arch
parent27a2f7c50c87691fa4b6a0a8a77f779b8bbe648c (diff)
powerpc: Add isync to copy_and_flush
commit 29ce3c5073057991217916abc25628e906911757 upstream. In __after_prom_start we copy the kernel down to zero in two calls to copy_and_flush. After the first call (copy from 0 to copy_to_here:) we jump to the newly copied code soon after. Unfortunately there's no isync between the copy of this code and the jump to it. Hence it's possible that stale instructions could still be in the icache or pipeline before we branch to it. We've seen this on real machines and it's results in no console output after: calling quiesce... returning from prom_init The below adds an isync to ensure that the copy and flushing has completed before any branching to the new instructions occurs. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
index e8befeffb67..a5031c35aa2 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
@@ -492,6 +492,7 @@ _GLOBAL(copy_and_flush)
sync
addi r5,r5,8
addi r6,r6,8
+ isync
blr
.align 8