ARM: 6395/1: VExpress: Set bit 22 in the PL310 (cache controller) AuxCtlr register
authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:57:17 +0000 (17:57 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:16:52 +0000 (10:16 +0100)
Clearing bit 22 in the PL310 Auxiliary Control register (shared
attribute override enable) has the side effect of transforming Normal
Shared Non-cacheable reads into Cacheable no-allocate reads.

Coherent DMA buffers in Linux always have a Cacheable alias via the
kernel linear mapping and the processor can speculatively load cache
lines into the PL310 controller. With bit 22 cleared, Non-cacheable
reads would unexpectedly hit such cache lines leading to buffer
corruption.

Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

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