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authorRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>2009-10-13 23:23:28 +0200
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>2009-11-02 12:00:07 +0100
commitc2ea1d56eaf084c66177eb5658ff4065e79b36ea (patch)
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parentMIPS: Octeon: Use lockless interrupt controller operations when possible. (diff)
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MIPS: Avoid potential hazard on Context register
set_saved_sp reads Context register. Avoid reading stale value from earlier incomplete write. Issue found and fixed for head.S by Chris Dearman <chris@mips.com>. Signed-off-by: Chris Dearman <chris@mips.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/head.S b/arch/mips/kernel/head.S
index 531ce7b16124..ea695d9605e9 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/head.S
@@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ NESTED(kernel_entry, 16, sp) # kernel entry point
/* Set the SP after an empty pt_regs. */
PTR_LI sp, _THREAD_SIZE - 32 - PT_SIZE
PTR_ADDU sp, $28
+ back_to_back_c0_hazard
set_saved_sp sp, t0, t1
PTR_SUBU sp, 4 * SZREG # init stack pointer