We need to do that to guarantee they see any code change done by dynamic patching during boot.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S index 370afd4..2505f78 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S @@ -147,6 +147,8 @@ __secondary_hold: mtctr r4 mr r3,r24 li r4,0 + /* Make sure that patched code is visible */ + isync bctr #else BUG_OPCODE -- 1.7.1 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev