3.16.7-ckt3 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me 
know.

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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazz...@free-electrons.com>

commit 995ab5189d1d7264e79e665dfa032a19b3ac646e upstream.

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: de4901933f6d ("arm: mm: Add support for PJ4B cpu and init routines")

Signed-off-by: Nadav Haklai <nad...@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazz...@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clem...@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Jason Cooper <ja...@lakedaemon.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+ker...@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriq...@canonical.com>
---
 arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
index 3db2c2f04a30..0eba0d1fd65a 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
@@ -235,7 +235,6 @@ __v7_pj4b_setup:
 /* Auxiliary Debug Modes Control 1 Register */
 #define PJ4B_STATIC_BP (1 << 2) /* Enable Static BP */
 #define PJ4B_INTER_PARITY (1 << 8) /* Disable Internal Parity Handling */
-#define PJ4B_BCK_OFF_STREX (1 << 5) /* Enable the back off of STREX instr */
 #define PJ4B_CLEAN_LINE (1 << 16) /* Disable data transfer for clean line */
 
 /* Auxiliary Debug Modes Control 2 Register */
@@ -258,7 +257,6 @@ __v7_pj4b_setup:
        /* Auxiliary Debug Modes Control 1 Register */
        mrc     p15, 1, r0, c15, c1, 1
        orr     r0, r0, #PJ4B_CLEAN_LINE
-       orr     r0, r0, #PJ4B_BCK_OFF_STREX
        orr     r0, r0, #PJ4B_INTER_PARITY
        bic     r0, r0, #PJ4B_STATIC_BP
        mcr     p15, 1, r0, c15, c1, 1
-- 
2.1.3

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