[PATCH 1/2] MIPS: Add barriers between dcache & icache flushes

From: Paul Burton
Date: Mon Feb 22 2016 - 13:10:13 EST


Index-based cache operations may be arbitrarily reordered by out of
order CPUs. Thus code which writes back the dcache & then invalidates
the icache using indexed cache ops must include a barrier between
operating on the 2 caches in order to prevent the scenario in which:

- icache invalidation occurs.

- icache fetch occurs, due to speculation.

- dcache writeback occurs.

If the above were allowed to happen then the icache would contain stale
data. Forcing the dcache writeback to complete before the icache
invalidation avoids this.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c b/arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c
index caac3d7..a49010c 100644
--- a/arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c
+++ b/arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c
@@ -449,6 +449,7 @@ static inline void local_r4k___flush_cache_all(void * args)

default:
r4k_blast_dcache();
+ mb(); /* cache instructions may be reordered */
r4k_blast_icache();
break;
}
@@ -493,8 +494,10 @@ static inline void local_r4k_flush_cache_range(void * args)
return;

r4k_blast_dcache();
- if (exec)
+ if (exec) {
+ mb(); /* cache instructions may be reordered */
r4k_blast_icache();
+ }
}

static void r4k_flush_cache_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
@@ -599,8 +602,13 @@ static inline void local_r4k_flush_cache_page(void *args)
if (cpu_has_dc_aliases || (exec && !cpu_has_ic_fills_f_dc)) {
vaddr ? r4k_blast_dcache_page(addr) :
r4k_blast_dcache_user_page(addr);
- if (exec && !cpu_icache_snoops_remote_store)
+ if (exec)
+ mb(); /* cache instructions may be reordered */
+
+ if (exec && !cpu_icache_snoops_remote_store) {
r4k_blast_scache_page(addr);
+ mb(); /* cache instructions may be reordered */
+ }
}
if (exec) {
if (vaddr && cpu_has_vtag_icache && mm == current->active_mm) {
@@ -660,6 +668,7 @@ static inline void local_r4k_flush_icache_range(unsigned long start, unsigned lo
R4600_HIT_CACHEOP_WAR_IMPL;
protected_blast_dcache_range(start, end);
}
+ mb(); /* cache instructions may be reordered */
}

if (end - start > icache_size)
@@ -798,6 +807,8 @@ static void local_r4k_flush_cache_sigtramp(void * arg)
protected_writeback_dcache_line(addr & ~(dc_lsize - 1));
if (!cpu_icache_snoops_remote_store && scache_size)
protected_writeback_scache_line(addr & ~(sc_lsize - 1));
+ if ((dc_lsize || scache_size) && ic_lsize)
+ mb(); /* cache instructions may be reordered */
if (ic_lsize)
protected_flush_icache_line(addr & ~(ic_lsize - 1));
if (MIPS4K_ICACHE_REFILL_WAR) {
--
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