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    arm64: head: fix cache flushing and barriers in set_cpu_boot_mode_flag · d0488597
    Will Deacon authored
    
    
    set_cpu_boot_mode_flag is used to identify which exception levels are
    encountered across the system by CPUs trying to enter the kernel. The
    basic algorithm is: if a CPU is booting at EL2, it will set a flag at
    an offset of #4 from __boot_cpu_mode, a cacheline-aligned variable.
    Otherwise, a flag is set at an offset of zero into the same cacheline.
    This enables us to check that all CPUs booted at the same exception
    level.
    
    This cacheline is written with the stage-1 MMU off (that is, via a
    strongly-ordered mapping) and will bypass any clean lines in the cache,
    leading to potential coherence problems when the variable is later
    checked via the normal, cacheable mapping of the kernel image.
    
    This patch reworks the broken flushing code so that we:
    
      (1) Use a DMB to order the strongly-ordered write of the cacheline
          against the subsequent cache-maintenance operation (by-VA
          operations only hazard against normal, cacheable accesses).
    
      (2) Use a single dc ivac instruction to invalidate any clean lines
          containing a stale copy of the line after it has been updated.
    
    Acked-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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