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Fabio Estevam authored
Having bit 22 cleared 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.

This was inspired by a patch from Catalin Marinas [1] and also from recent
discussions in the linux-arm-kernel list [2] where Russell King and Rob Herring
suggested that bootloaders should initialize the cache.

[1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2010-November/031810.html
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/20/199



Signed-off-by: default avatarFabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
Acked-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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