From: Catalin Marinas Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:57:17 +0000 (+0100) Subject: ARM: 6395/1: VExpress: Set bit 22 in the PL310 (cache controller) AuxCtlr register X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1a8e41cd672f894bbd74874eac601e6cedf838fb;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git ARM: 6395/1: VExpress: Set bit 22 in the PL310 (cache controller) AuxCtlr register 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 Cc: Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Russell King --- diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-vexpress/ct-ca9x4.c b/arch/arm/mach-vexpress/ct-ca9x4.c index 577df6cccb08..1c9c13e9d074 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mach-vexpress/ct-ca9x4.c +++ b/arch/arm/mach-vexpress/ct-ca9x4.c @@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ static void ct_ca9x4_init(void) int i; #ifdef CONFIG_CACHE_L2X0 - l2x0_init(MMIO_P2V(CT_CA9X4_L2CC), 0x00000000, 0xfe0fffff); + l2x0_init(MMIO_P2V(CT_CA9X4_L2CC), 0x00400000, 0xfe0fffff); #endif clkdev_add_table(lookups, ARRAY_SIZE(lookups));