ARM: ensure initial page tables are setup for SMP systems

Mapping the same memory using two different attributes (memory
type, shareability, cacheability) is unpredictable.  During boot,
we encounter a situation when we're updating the kernel's page
tables which can lead to dirty cache lines existing in the cache
which are subsequently missed.  This causes stack corruption,
and therefore a crash.

Therefore, ensure that the shared and cacheability settings
matches the configuration that will be used later; this together
with the restriction in early_cachepolicy() ensures that we won't
create a mismatch during boot.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This commit is contained in:
Russell King
2009-11-01 17:44:24 +00:00
parent 6603a4fd51
commit 4b46d64165
3 changed files with 15 additions and 6 deletions

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@ -117,6 +117,13 @@ static void __init early_cachepolicy(char **p)
}
if (i == ARRAY_SIZE(cache_policies))
printk(KERN_ERR "ERROR: unknown or unsupported cache policy\n");
/*
* This restriction is partly to do with the way we boot; it is
* unpredictable to have memory mapped using two different sets of
* memory attributes (shared, type, and cache attribs). We can not
* change these attributes once the initial assembly has setup the
* page tables.
*/
if (cpu_architecture() >= CPU_ARCH_ARMv6) {
printk(KERN_WARNING "Only cachepolicy=writeback supported on ARMv6 and later\n");
cachepolicy = CPOLICY_WRITEBACK;