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

Andre Przywara andre.przywara at arm.com
Wed Apr 1 02:27:32 PDT 2015



On 01/04/15 10:22, Will Deacon wrote:
> 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.

Ah yes, good catch, thank you!

>>>
>>> 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
>         {
> 

I like this version more:

Acked-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>

Cheers,
Andre.




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