[U-Boot] [PATCH V6 01/11] ARM: Introduce erratum workaround for 798870

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Wed Mar 11 16:48:20 CET 2015


On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 05:11:59PM -0500, Nishanth Menon wrote:

> Add workaround for Cortex-A15 ARM erratum 798870 which says
> "If back-to-back speculative cache line fills (fill A and fill B) are
> issued from the L1 data cache of a CPU to the L2 cache, the second
> request (fill B) is then cancelled, and the second request would have
> detected a hazard against a recent write or eviction (write B) to the
> same cache line as fill B then the L2 logic might deadlock."
> 
> Implementations for SoC families such as Exynos, OMAP5/DRA7 etc
> will be widely different.
> 
> Every SoC has slightly different manner of setting up access to L2ACLR
> and similar registers since the Secure Monitor handling of Secure
> Monitor Call(smc) is diverse. Hence an weak function is introduced
> which may be overriden to implement SoC specific accessor implementation.
> 
> Based on ARM errata Document revision 18.0 (22 Nov 2013)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm at ti.com>

Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>

-- 
Tom
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