From 5f40b909728ad784eb43aa309d3c4e9bdf050781 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:53:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: 7559/1: smp: switch away from the idmap before updating
init_mm.mm_count
When booting a secondary CPU, the primary CPU hands two sets of page
tables via the secondary_data struct:
(1) swapper_pg_dir: a normal, cacheable, shared (if SMP) mapping
of the kernel image (i.e. the tables used by init_mm).
(2) idmap_pgd: an uncached mapping of the .idmap.text ELF
section.
The idmap is generally used when enabling and disabling the MMU, which
includes early CPU boot. In this case, the secondary CPU switches to
swapper as soon as it enters C code:
struct mm_struct *mm = &init_mm;
unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id();
/*
* All kernel threads share the same mm context; grab a
* reference and switch to it.
*/
atomic_inc(&mm->mm_count);
current->active_mm = mm;
cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(mm));
cpu_switch_mm(mm->pgd, mm);
This causes a problem on ARMv7, where the identity mapping is treated as
strongly-ordered leading to architecturally UNPREDICTABLE behaviour of
exclusive accesses, such as those used by atomic_inc.
This patch re-orders the secondary_start_kernel function so that we
switch to swapper before performing any exclusive accesses.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: David McKay <david.mckay@st.com>
Reported-by: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
---
arch/arm/kernel/smp.c | 14 ++++++++++----
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
index 8e20754dd31d5..fbc8b2623d82f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
@@ -294,18 +294,24 @@ static void percpu_timer_setup(void);
asmlinkage void __cpuinit secondary_start_kernel(void)
{
struct mm_struct *mm = &init_mm;
- unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id();
+ unsigned int cpu;
+
+ /*
+ * The identity mapping is uncached (strongly ordered), so
+ * switch away from it before attempting any exclusive accesses.
+ */
+ cpu_switch_mm(mm->pgd, mm);
+ enter_lazy_tlb(mm, current);
+ local_flush_tlb_all();
/*
* All kernel threads share the same mm context; grab a
* reference and switch to it.
*/
+ cpu = smp_processor_id();
atomic_inc(&mm->mm_count);
current->active_mm = mm;
cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(mm));
- cpu_switch_mm(mm->pgd, mm);
- enter_lazy_tlb(mm, current);
- local_flush_tlb_all();
printk("CPU%u: Booted secondary processor\n", cpu);
--
2.30.2