ARM: ensure initial page tables are setup for SMP systems

Mapping the same memory using two different attributes (memory
type, shareability, cacheability) is unpredictable.  During boot,
we encounter a situation when we're updating the kernel's page
tables which can lead to dirty cache lines existing in the cache
which are subsequently missed.  This causes stack corruption,
and therefore a crash.

Therefore, ensure that the shared and cacheability settings
matches the configuration that will be used later; this together
with the restriction in early_cachepolicy() ensures that we won't
create a mismatch during boot.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
index 02243eeccf50..ea67be0223ac 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
@@ -117,6 +117,13 @@ static void __init early_cachepolicy(char **p)
 	}
 	if (i == ARRAY_SIZE(cache_policies))
 		printk(KERN_ERR "ERROR: unknown or unsupported cache policy\n");
+	/*
+	 * This restriction is partly to do with the way we boot; it is
+	 * unpredictable to have memory mapped using two different sets of
+	 * memory attributes (shared, type, and cache attribs).  We can not
+	 * change these attributes once the initial assembly has setup the
+	 * page tables.
+	 */
 	if (cpu_architecture() >= CPU_ARCH_ARMv6) {
 		printk(KERN_WARNING "Only cachepolicy=writeback supported on ARMv6 and later\n");
 		cachepolicy = CPOLICY_WRITEBACK;