ARM: 8941/1: decompressor: enable CP15 barrier instructions in v7 cache setup code
Commit e17b1af9 "ARM: 8857/1: efi: enable CP15 DMB instructions before cleaning the cache" added some explicit handling of the CP15BEN bit in the SCTLR system register, to ensure that CP15 barrier instructions are enabled, even if we enter the decompressor via the EFI stub. However, as it turns out, there are other ways in which we may end up using CP15 barrier instructions without them being enabled. I.e., when the decompressor startup code skips the cache_on() initially, we end up calling cache_clean_flush() with the caches and MMU off, in which case the CP15BEN bit in SCTLR may not be programmed either. And in fact, cache_on() itself issues CP15 barrier instructions before actually enabling them by programming the new SCTLR value (and issuing an ISB) Since these routines are shared between v7 CPUs and older ones that implement the CPUID extension as well, using the ordinary v7 barrier instructions in this code is not possible, and so we should enable the CP15 ones explicitly before issuing them. Note that a v7 ISB is still required between programming the SCTLR register and using the CP15 barrier instructions, and we should take care to branch over it if the CP15BEN bit is already set, given that in that case, the CPU may not support it. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
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