[PATCH] arm64: fix midr range for Cortex-A57 erratum 832075

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Wed Apr 1 02:22:29 PDT 2015


On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:17:21PM +0100, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Mar 2015, Bo Yan wrote:
> 
> > Register MIDR_EL1 is masked to get variant and revision fields, then
> > compared against midr_range_min and midr_range_max when checking
> > whether CPU is affected by any particular erratum. However, variant
> > and revision fields in MIDR_EL1 are separated by 16 bits, so the min
> > and max of midr range should be constructed accordingly, otherwise
> > the patch will not be applied when variant field is non-0.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Bo Yan <byan at nvidia.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
> > index fa62637e63a8..7838f1578019 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
> > @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ struct arm64_cpu_capabilities arm64_errata[] = {
> >  	/* Cortex-A57 r0p0 - r1p2 */
> >  		.desc = "ARM erratum 832075",
> >  		.capability = ARM64_WORKAROUND_DEVICE_LOAD_ACQUIRE,
> > -		MIDR_RANGE(MIDR_CORTEX_A57, 0x00, 0x12),
> > +		MIDR_RANGE(MIDR_CORTEX_A57, 0x00, 0x100002),
> >  	},
> >  #endif
> >  	{
> > -- 
> > 2.1.4
> 
> Reviewed-by: Paul Walmsley <paul at pwsan.com>
> 
> Reviewed against DDI0488G section 4.3.1 "Main ID Register, EL1".  Looks 
> like a cut-and-paste error from the A53 workarounds.

Thanks guys, I agree that this is a bug. I'll apply this, but using an
explicit shift to set the variant (tweaked version below).

Will

--->8

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
index a66f4fa4d541..c998345a052f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities arm64_errata[] = {
        /* Cortex-A57 r0p0 - r1p2 */
                .desc = "ARM erratum 832075",
                .capability = ARM64_WORKAROUND_DEVICE_LOAD_ACQUIRE,
-               MIDR_RANGE(MIDR_CORTEX_A57, 0x00, 0x12),
+               MIDR_RANGE(MIDR_CORTEX_A57, 0x00, (1 << MIDR_VARIANT_SHIFT) | 2,
        },
 #endif
        {



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