[PATCH] arm64: Add workaround for Cavium erratum 26026
David Daney
ddaney.cavm at gmail.com
Thu Aug 4 14:40:48 PDT 2016
On 08/04/2016 01:57 PM, Robert Richter wrote:
> The patch below is on top of Matthias' patch series:
>
> arm64: Implement IPI based TLB invalidation
>
> The series is used to enable a workaround for Cavium ThunderX pass 1.x
> systems.
Where are the rest of the patches in the series? I would have expected
something like "[PATCH 1/X] arm64:..." with X being greater than one.
>
> -Robert
>
>
>
> From abb99ee83473d9ecffb4fdaae9c69435ca670bc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Robert Richter <rrichter at cavium.com>
> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 09:40:04 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] arm64: Add workaround for Cavium erratum 26026
>
> STX may return a wrong status value if the store was successful.
>
> This may happen on ThunderX T88 pass 1.x cpus if a broadcast TLBI is
> executed on another cpu in parallel to an STX. As a result atomic or
> non-blocking implementations can behave incorrectly. Use IPIs that
> call local TLBIs on other cpus to avoid this.
>
> Applies to ThunderX T88 pass 1.x cpus.
>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <rrichter at cavium.com>
> ---
> Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt | 1 +
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 14 ++++++++++++++
> arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c | 8 ++++++++
> 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt b/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt
> index 4da60b463995..0d870d934528 100644
> --- a/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt
> @@ -58,5 +58,6 @@ stable kernels.
> | Cavium | ThunderX ITS | #22375, #24313 | CAVIUM_ERRATUM_22375 |
> | Cavium | ThunderX ITS | #23144 | CAVIUM_ERRATUM_23144 |
> | Cavium | ThunderX GICv3 | #23154 | CAVIUM_ERRATUM_23154 |
> +| Cavium | ThunderX Core | #26026 | CAVIUM_ERRATUM_26026 |
> | Cavium | ThunderX Core | #27456 | CAVIUM_ERRATUM_27456 |
> | Cavium | ThunderX SMMUv2 | #27704 | N/A |
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index 5a0a691d4220..8cbd9043ec6f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -457,6 +457,20 @@ config CAVIUM_ERRATUM_23154
>
> If unsure, say Y.
>
> +config CAVIUM_ERRATUM_26026
> + bool "Cavium erratum 26026: STX may return wrong status value"
> + default y
> + help
> + STX may return a wrong status value if the store was
> + successful. This may happen on ThunderX T88 pass 1.x cpus if
> + a broadcast TLBI is executed on another cpu in parallel to
> + an STX. As a result atomic or non-blocking implementations
> + can behave incorrectly. Use IPIs that call local TLBIs on
> + other cpus to avoid this.
> + Applies to ThunderX T88 pass 1.x cpus.
> +
> + If unsure, say Y.
> +
> config CAVIUM_ERRATUM_27456
> bool "Cavium erratum 27456: Broadcast TLBI instructions may cause icache corruption"
> default y
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
> index af716b65110d..1e1753a6408e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
> @@ -90,6 +90,14 @@ const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities arm64_errata[] = {
> MIDR_RANGE(MIDR_THUNDERX, 0x00, 0x01),
> },
> #endif
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CAVIUM_ERRATUM_26026
> + {
> + /* Cavium ThunderX, pass 1.x */
> + .desc = "Cavium erratum 26026",
> + .capability = ARM64_HAS_NO_BCAST_TLBI,
> + MIDR_RANGE(MIDR_THUNDERX, 0x00, 0x01),
> + },
> +#endif
> #ifdef CONFIG_CAVIUM_ERRATUM_27456
> {
> /* Cavium ThunderX, T88 pass 1.x - 2.1 */
>
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