[PATCH] arm64: Work around Falkor erratum 1009
Mark Rutland
mark.rutland at arm.com
Thu Dec 8 03:45:12 PST 2016
On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 03:04:31PM -0500, Christopher Covington wrote:
> From: Shanker Donthineni <shankerd at codeaurora.org>
>
> During a TLB invalidate sequence targeting the inner shareable
> domain, Falkor may prematurely complete the DSB before all loads
> and stores using the old translation are observed; instruction
> fetches are not subject to the conditions of this erratum.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shanker Donthineni <shankerd at codeaurora.org>
> Signed-off-by: Christopher Covington <cov at codeaurora.org>
> ---
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 10 +++++++++
> arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h | 3 ++-
> arch/arm64/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c | 7 +++++++
> arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/tlb.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> 5 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Please update Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt respectively.
[...]
> #include <linux/sched.h>
> #include <asm/cputype.h>
> +#include <asm/alternative.h>
Nit: please keep includes (alphabetically) ordered (at least below the
linux/ or asm/ level).
[...]
> + asm volatile(ALTERNATIVE(
> + "nop \n"
> + "nop \n",
> + "tlbi vmalle1is \n"
> + "dsb ish \n",
As a general note, perhaps we want a C compatible NOP_ALTERNATIVE() so
that the nop case can be implicitly generated for sequences like this.
Thanks,
Mark.
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