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sh: Fix problems with cache flushing when cache is in write-through mode
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Change the method used to flush the cache in write-through mode to
avoid corrupted data being written back to memory.

Signed-off-by: Stuart Menefy <stuart.menefy@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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Stuart Menefy authored and Paul Mundt committed Aug 24, 2009
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34 changes: 34 additions & 0 deletions arch/sh/mm/cache-sh4.c
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Expand Up @@ -592,6 +592,20 @@ static void __flush_cache_4096(unsigned long addr, unsigned long phys,
* this with a cache invalidate to mark the cache line invalid. And do all
* this with interrupts disabled, to avoid the cache line being accidently
* evicted while it is holding garbage.
*
* This also breaks in a number of circumstances:
* - if there are modifications to the region of memory just above
* empty_zero_page (for example because a breakpoint has been placed
* there), then these can be lost.
*
* This is because the the memory address which the cache temporarily
* caches in the above description is empty_zero_page. So the
* movca.l hits the cache (it is assumed that it misses, or at least
* isn't dirty), modifies the line and then invalidates it, losing the
* required change.
*
* - If caches are disabled or configured in write-through mode, then
* the movca.l writes garbage directly into memory.
*/
static void __flush_dcache_segment_1way(unsigned long start,
unsigned long extent_per_way)
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} while (a0 < a0e);
}

#ifdef CONFIG_CACHE_WRITETHROUGH
/* This method of cache flushing avoids the problems discussed
* in the comment above if writethrough caches are enabled. */
static void __flush_dcache_segment_2way(unsigned long start,
unsigned long extent_per_way)
{
unsigned long array_addr;

array_addr = CACHE_OC_ADDRESS_ARRAY |
(start & cpu_data->dcache.entry_mask);

while (extent_per_way) {
ctrl_outl(0, array_addr);
ctrl_outl(0, array_addr + cpu_data->dcache.way_incr);
array_addr += cpu_data->dcache.linesz;
extent_per_way -= cpu_data->dcache.linesz;
}
}
#else
static void __flush_dcache_segment_2way(unsigned long start,
unsigned long extent_per_way)
{
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a1 += linesz;
} while (a0 < a0e);
}
#endif

static void __flush_dcache_segment_4way(unsigned long start,
unsigned long extent_per_way)
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