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

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Wed Apr 1 03:55:19 PDT 2015


On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 10:22:29AM +0100, 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.
> > > 
> > > 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,
>         },

That works, though it's going to make this really painful to read.
Perhaps we should update MIDR_RANGE to take separate variant and
revision parameters?

Then we could have MIDR_RANGE(MIDR_CORTEX_A57, 0x0, 0x0, 0x1, 0x2) for
Cortex-A57 r0p0 to r1p2.

Mark.



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