This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ARCv2: SLC: Make sure busy bit is set properly on SLC flushing
to the 4.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
arcv2-slc-make-sure-busy-bit-is-set-properly-on-slc-flushing.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From c70c473396cbdec1168a6eff60e13029c0916854 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 17:15:11 +0300
Subject: ARCv2: SLC: Make sure busy bit is set properly on SLC flushing
From: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit c70c473396cbdec1168a6eff60e13029c0916854 upstream.
As reported in STAR 9001165532, an SLC control reg read (for checking
busy state) right after SLC invalidate command may incorrectly return
NOT busy causing software to NOT spin-wait while operation is underway.
(and for some reason this only happens if L1 cache is also disabled - as
required by IOC programming model)
Suggested workaround is to do an additional Control Reg read, which
ensures the 2nd read gets the right status.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
[vgupta: reworte changelog a bit]
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arc/mm/cache.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/arc/mm/cache.c
+++ b/arch/arc/mm/cache.c
@@ -633,6 +633,9 @@ noinline static void slc_entire_op(const
write_aux_reg(ARC_REG_SLC_INVALIDATE, 1);
+ /* Make sure "busy" bit reports correct stataus, see STAR 9001165532 */
+ read_aux_reg(r);
+
/* Important to wait for flush to complete */
while (read_aux_reg(r) & SLC_CTRL_BUSY);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from abrodkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.10/arcv2-slc-make-sure-busy-bit-is-set-properly-on-slc-flushing.patch