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| author | Palmer Dabbelt | 2019-09-24 17:15:56 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul Walmsley | 2019-10-01 13:16:40 -0700 |
| commit | 18856604b3e7090ce42d533995173ee70c24b1c9 (patch) | |
| tree | 2d52b920be2bb0dc54bb4ad0dd88413a7be5fcee /arch/riscv/kernel | |
| parent | 54ecb8f7028c5eb3d740bb82b0f1d90f2df63c5c (diff) | |
RISC-V: Clear load reservations while restoring hart contexts
This is almost entirely a comment. The bug is unlikely to manifest on
existing hardware because there is a timeout on load reservations, but
manifests on QEMU because there is no timeout.
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/riscv/kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S | 21 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S index da7aa88113c2..2d592da1e776 100644 --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S @@ -98,7 +98,26 @@ _save_context: */ .macro RESTORE_ALL REG_L a0, PT_SSTATUS(sp) - REG_L a2, PT_SEPC(sp) + /* + * The current load reservation is effectively part of the processor's + * state, in the sense that load reservations cannot be shared between + * different hart contexts. We can't actually save and restore a load + * reservation, so instead here we clear any existing reservation -- + * it's always legal for implementations to clear load reservations at + * any point (as long as the forward progress guarantee is kept, but + * we'll ignore that here). + * + * Dangling load reservations can be the result of taking a trap in the + * middle of an LR/SC sequence, but can also be the result of a taken + * forward branch around an SC -- which is how we implement CAS. As a + * result we need to clear reservations between the last CAS and the + * jump back to the new context. While it is unlikely the store + * completes, implementations are allowed to expand reservations to be + * arbitrarily large. + */ + REG_L a2, PT_SEPC(sp) + REG_SC x0, a2, PT_SEPC(sp) + csrw CSR_SSTATUS, a0 csrw CSR_SEPC, a2 |