[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] ARM: Add workaround for Cortex-A9 errata 794072

nitin.garg at freescale.com nitin.garg at freescale.com
Wed Apr 2 05:33:57 CEST 2014


From: Nitin Garg <nitin.garg at freescale.com>

A short loop including a DMB instruction might cause a denial of
service on another processor which executes a CP15 broadcast operation.
Exists on r1, r2, r3, r4 revisions.

Signed-off-by: Nitin Garg <nitin.garg at freescale.com>
---
 README                     |    1 +
 arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S |    5 +++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 7cb7c4f..a496c65 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -566,6 +566,7 @@ The following options need to be configured:
 		CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_742230
 		CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_743622
 		CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_751472
+		CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_794072
 
 		If set, the workarounds for these ARM errata are applied early
 		during U-Boot startup. Note that these options force the
diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S
index ac1e55a..b87a378 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S
@@ -222,6 +222,11 @@ ENTRY(cpu_init_cp15)
 	orr	r0, r0, #1 << 11	@ set bit #11
 	mcr	p15, 0, r0, c15, c0, 1	@ write diagnostic register
 #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_794072
+	mrc	p15, 0, r0, c15, c0, 1	@ read diagnostic register
+	orr	r0, r0, #1 << 4		@ set bit #4
+	mcr	p15, 0, r0, c15, c0, 1	@ write diagnostic register
+#endif
 
 	mov	pc, lr			@ back to my caller
 ENDPROC(cpu_init_cp15)
-- 
1.7.4.1




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