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Commit 410b3bf0 authored by Alexandru Elisei's avatar Alexandru Elisei Committed by Andrew Jones
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arm/arm64: Perform dcache clean + invalidate after turning MMU off



When the MMU is off, data accesses are to Device nGnRnE memory on arm64 [1]
or to Strongly-Ordered memory on arm [2]. This means that the accesses are
non-cacheable.

Perform a dcache clean to PoC so we can read the newer values from the
cache after we turn the MMU off, instead of the stale values from memory.

Perform an invalidation so we can access the data written to memory after
we turn the MMU back on. This prevents reading back the stale values we
cleaned from the cache when we turned the MMU off.

Data caches are PIPT and the VAs are translated using the current
translation tables, or an identity mapping (what Arm calls a "flat
mapping") when the MMU is off [1, 2]. Do the clean + invalidate when the
MMU is off so we don't depend on the current translation tables and we can
make sure that the operation applies to the entire physical memory.

The patch was tested by hacking arm/selftest.c:

+#include <alloc_page.h>
+#include <asm/mmu.h>
 int main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
+	int *x = alloc_page();
+
 	report_prefix_push("selftest");

+	*x = 0x42;
+	mmu_disable();
+	report(*x == 0x42, "read back value written with MMU on");
+	*x = 0x50;
+	mmu_enable(current_thread_info()->pgtable);
+	report(*x == 0x50, "read back value written with MMU off");
+
 	if (argc < 2)
 		report_abort("no test specified");

Without the fix, the first report fails, and the test usually hangs before
the second report. This is because mmu_enable pushes the LR register on the
stack when the MMU is off, which means that the value will be written to
memory.  However, after asm_mmu_enable, the MMU is enabled, and we read it
back from the dcache, thus getting garbage.

With the fix, the two reports pass.

[1] ARM DDI 0487E.a, section D5.2.9
[2] ARM DDI 0406C.d, section B3.2.1

Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei's avatarAlexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones's avatarAndrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
parent 24dd2ada
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