Under extremely rare conditions, in an MPCore node consisting of at
least 3 CPUs, two CPUs trying to perform a STREX to data on the same
shared cache line can enter a livelock situation.
This patch enables the HW mechanism that overcomes the bug. This fixes
the incorrect setup of the STREX backoff delay bit due to a wrong
description in the specification.
Note that enabling the STREX backoff delay mechanism is done by
leaving the bit *cleared*, while the bit was currently being set by
the proc-v7.S code.
[Thomas: adapt to latest mainline, slightly reword the commit log, add
stable markers.]
Fixes: de4901933f ("arm: mm: Add support for PJ4B cpu and init routines")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.8+
Signed-off-by: Nadav Haklai <nadavh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
995ab5189d