Patch "ARCv2: smp-boot: wake_flag polling by non-Masters needs to be uncached" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

ARCv2: smp-boot: wake_flag polling by non-Masters needs to be uncached

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
arcv2-smp-boot-wake_flag-polling-by-non-masters-needs-to-be-uncached.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Vineet Gupta <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 14:24:33 +0530
Subject: ARCv2: smp-boot: wake_flag polling by non-Masters needs to be uncached

From: Vineet Gupta <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 78f824d4312a8944f5340c6b161bba3bf2c81096 ]

This is needed on HS38 cores, for setting up IO-Coherency aperture properly

The polling could perturb the caches and coherecy fabric which could be wrong in the small window when Master is setting up IOC aperture etc in arc_cache_init()

We do it only for ARCv2 based builds to not affect EZChip ARCompact based platform.

---
 arch/arc/kernel/smp.c |   19 ++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

@@ -90,10 +90,23 @@ void __init smp_cpus_done(unsigned int m
  */
 static volatile int wake_flag;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_ISA_ARCOMPACT
+
+#define __boot_read(f)		f
+#define __boot_write(f, v)	f = v
+
+#else
+
+#define __boot_read(f)		arc_read_uncached_32(&f)
+#define __boot_write(f, v)	arc_write_uncached_32(&f, v)
+
+#endif
+
 static void arc_default_smp_cpu_kick(int cpu, unsigned long pc)
 {
 	BUG_ON(cpu == 0);
-	wake_flag = cpu;
+
+	__boot_write(wake_flag, cpu);
 }
 
 void arc_platform_smp_wait_to_boot(int cpu)

@@ -102,10 +115,10 @@ void arc_platform_smp_wait_to_boot(int c
 	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARC_SMP_HALT_ON_RESET))
 		return;
 
-	while (wake_flag != cpu)
+	while (__boot_read(wake_flag) != cpu)
 		;
 
-	wake_flag = 0;
+	__boot_write(wake_flag, 0);
 }
 
 const char *arc_platform_smp_cpuinfo(void)

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/arc-smp-boot-decouple-non-masters-waiting-api-from-jump-to-entry-point.patch queue-4.9/arcv2-smp-boot-wake_flag-polling-by-non-masters-needs-to-be-uncached.patch