On older version of the Arm Arm (ARM DDI 0487E.a, B2-125) there were
the following paragraph:
"DMB and DSB instructions affect reads and writes to the memory system
generated by Load/Store instructions and data or unified cache
maintenance instructions being executed by the PE. Instruction fetches
or accesses caused by a hardware translation table access are not
explicit accesses."
Newer revision (e.g. ARM DDI 0487J.a) doesn't have the second sentence
(it might be somewhere else in the Arm Arm). But the interpretation is
not much different.
In setup_fixmap(), we write the fixmap area and may be used soon after,
for instance, to write to the UART. IOW, there could be hardware
translation table access. So we need to ensure the 'dsb' has completed
before continuing. Therefore add an 'isb'.
Fixes: 2b11c3646105 ("xen/arm64: head: Remove 1:1 mapping as soon as it is not used")
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>
create_table_entry boot_second, xen_fixmap, x0, 2, x1, x2, x3
/* Ensure any page table updates made above have occurred. */
dsb nshst
+ /*
+ * The fixmap area will be used soon after. So ensure no hardware
+ * translation happens before the dsb completes.
+ */
+ isb
ret
ENDPROC(setup_fixmap)