arm64: head: fix cache flushing and barriers in set_cpu_boot_mode_flag
set_cpu_boot_mode_flag is used to identify which exception levels are
encountered across the system by CPUs trying to enter the kernel. The
basic algorithm is: if a CPU is booting at EL2, it will set a flag at
an offset of #4 from __boot_cpu_mode, a cacheline-aligned variable.
Otherwise, a flag is set at an offset of zero into the same cacheline.
This enables us to check that all CPUs booted at the same exception
level.
This cacheline is written with the stage-1 MMU off (that is, via a
strongly-ordered mapping) and will bypass any clean lines in the cache,
leading to potential coherence problems when the variable is later
checked via the normal, cacheable mapping of the kernel image.
This patch reworks the broken flushing code so that we:
(1) Use a DMB to order the strongly-ordered write of the cacheline
against the subsequent cache-maintenance operation (by-VA
operations only hazard against normal, cacheable accesses).
(2) Use a single dc ivac instruction to invalidate any clean lines
containing a stale copy of the line after it has been updated.
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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