[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "ARM: 7957/1: add DSB after icache flush in __flush_icache_all()" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Thu Mar 20 15:54:40 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ARM: 7957/1: add DSB after icache flush in __flush_icache_all()

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.20.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From bc118603fc3cc59a65151193ac41672dde423011 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vinayak Kale <vkale at apm.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 07:30:01 +0100
Subject: ARM: 7957/1: add DSB after icache flush in __flush_icache_all()

commit 39544ac9df20f73e49fc6b9ac19ff533388c82c0 upstream.

Add DSB after icache flush to complete the cache maintenance operation.

Signed-off-by: Vinayak Kale <vkale at apm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
index 738fcba..f591b85 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
@@ -212,6 +212,7 @@ extern void copy_to_user_page(struct vm_area_struct *, struct page *,
 static inline void __flush_icache_all(void)
 {
 	__flush_icache_preferred();
+	dsb();
 }

 /*
--
1.8.3.2





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