ARM: 8222/1: mvebu: enable strex backoff delay
authorThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:43:15 +0000 (18:43 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 6 Dec 2014 23:05:49 +0000 (15:05 -0800)
commit6e1baa82767fb291617f442393c8ec0f31ef0e31
tree1f0527e76fe0358deb68106568e950d60e92a465
parentbf58b9734a076083e370eb757c6faeee3687271b
ARM: 8222/1: mvebu: enable strex backoff delay

commit 995ab5189d1d7264e79e665dfa032a19b3ac646e upstream.

Under extremely rare conditions, in an MPCore node consisting of at
least 3 CPUs, two CPUs trying to perform a STREX to data on the same
shared cache line can enter a livelock situation.

This patch enables the HW mechanism that overcomes the bug. This fixes
the incorrect setup of the STREX backoff delay bit due to a wrong
description in the specification.

Note that enabling the STREX backoff delay mechanism is done by
leaving the bit *cleared*, while the bit was currently being set by
the proc-v7.S code.

[Thomas: adapt to latest mainline, slightly reword the commit log, add
stable markers.]

Fixes: de4901933f6d ("arm: mm: Add support for PJ4B cpu and init routines")
Signed-off-by: Nadav Haklai <nadavh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S