arm-trusted-firmware/services
Soby Mathew 203cdfe26f Fix PSCI CPU ON race when setting state to ON_PENDING
When a CPU is powered down using PSCI CPU OFF API, it disables its caches
and updates its `aff_info_state` to OFF. The corresponding cache line is
invalidated by the CPU so that the update will be observed by other CPUs
running with caches enabled. There is a possibility that another CPU
which has been trying to turn ON this CPU via PSCI CPU ON API,
has already seen the update to `aff_info_state` and proceeds to update
the state to ON_PENDING prior to the cache invalidation. This may result
in the update of the state to ON_PENDING being discarded.

This patch fixes this issue by making sure that the update of `aff_info_state`
to ON_PENDING sticks by reading back the value after the cache flush and
retrying it if not updated. The patch also adds a dsbish() to
`psci_do_cpu_off()` to ensure ordering of the update to `aff_info_state`
prior to cache line invalidation.

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#349

Change-Id: I225de99957fe89871f8c57bcfc243956e805dcca
2016-02-01 14:52:30 +00:00
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spd Miscellaneous doc fixes for v1.2 2015-12-21 18:10:12 +00:00
std_svc Fix PSCI CPU ON race when setting state to ON_PENDING 2016-02-01 14:52:30 +00:00