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powerpc: Add isync to copy_and_flush
authorMichael Neuling <michael.neuling@au1.ibm.com>
Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:30:09 +0000 (00:30 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 8 May 2013 02:57:20 +0000 (19:57 -0700)
commit74f31cf3c186bc0189ad560fadfc03dd9aa2f806
treea80837e73826ab7ec51d2ef6b90b9fd3eaad2449
parent27a2f7c50c87691fa4b6a0a8a77f779b8bbe648c
powerpc: Add isync to copy_and_flush

commit 29ce3c5073057991217916abc25628e906911757 upstream.

In __after_prom_start we copy the kernel down to zero in two calls to
copy_and_flush.  After the first call (copy from 0 to copy_to_here:)
we jump to the newly copied code soon after.

Unfortunately there's no isync between the copy of this code and the
jump to it.  Hence it's possible that stale instructions could still be
in the icache or pipeline before we branch to it.

We've seen this on real machines and it's results in no console output
after:
  calling quiesce...
  returning from prom_init

The below adds an isync to ensure that the copy and flushing has
completed before any branching to the new instructions occurs.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S