Re: [PATCH] ARM: cache-v7: Disable preemption when reading CCSIDR

On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On 02/02/12 17:18, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > If you simply disable/restore IRQs around the critical region then you 
> > don't have to worry about __v7_setup.  Plus this will allow for 
> > v7_flush_dcache_all to still be callable from atomic context.
> 
> Ok. Here's a patch. I still need to test it. I'll send another patch
> series to cleanup the get_thread_info stuff (there's two of them?).
> 
>  arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S |    6 ++++++
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S b/arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S
> index 07c4bc8..654a5fc 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S
>  <at>  <at>  -54,9 +54,15  <at>  <at>  loop1:
>  	and	r1, r1, #7			 <at>  mask of the bits for current cache only
>  	cmp	r1, #2				 <at>  see what cache we have at this level
>  	blt	skip				 <at>  skip if no cache, or just i-cache
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
> +	save_and_disable_irqs r9		 <at>  make cssr&csidr read atomic
> +#endif
>  	mcr	p15, 2, r10, c0, c0, 0		 <at>  select current cache level in cssr
>  	isb					 <at>  isb to sych the new cssr&csidr
>  	mrc	p15, 1, r1, c0, c0, 0		 <at>  read the new csidr
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
> +	restore_irqs r9
> +#endif

I'd suggest using restore_irqs_notrace instead.  The IRQ-off period is 
so small that there is no point tracing it.

Withthat change:

Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico <at> linaro.org>

Nicolas