[PATCH v2 14/18] arm64: erratum: Work around Falkor erratum #E1003 in trampoline code
Robin Murphy
robin.murphy at arm.com
Thu Nov 30 09:06:48 PST 2017
Hi Will,
On 30/11/17 16:39, Will Deacon wrote:
> We rely on an atomic swizzling of TTBR1 when transitioning from the entry
> trampoline to the kernel proper on an exception. We can't rely on this
> atomicity in the face of Falkor erratum #E1003, so on affected cores we
> can issue a TLB invalidation to invalidate the walk cache prior to
> jumping into the kernel. There is still the possibility of a TLB conflict
> here due to conflicting walk cache entries prior to the invalidation, but
> this doesn't appear to be the case on these CPUs in practice.
>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 17 +++++------------
> arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S | 10 ++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index a93339f5178f..fdcc7b9bb15d 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -522,20 +522,13 @@ config CAVIUM_ERRATUM_30115
> config QCOM_FALKOR_ERRATUM_1003
> bool "Falkor E1003: Incorrect translation due to ASID change"
> default y
> - select ARM64_PAN if ARM64_SW_TTBR0_PAN
> help
> On Falkor v1, an incorrect ASID may be cached in the TLB when ASID
> - and BADDR are changed together in TTBRx_EL1. The workaround for this
> - issue is to use a reserved ASID in cpu_do_switch_mm() before
> - switching to the new ASID. Saying Y here selects ARM64_PAN if
> - ARM64_SW_TTBR0_PAN is selected. This is done because implementing and
> - maintaining the E1003 workaround in the software PAN emulation code
> - would be an unnecessary complication. The affected Falkor v1 CPU
> - implements ARMv8.1 hardware PAN support and using hardware PAN
> - support versus software PAN emulation is mutually exclusive at
> - runtime.
> -
> - If unsure, say Y.
> + and BADDR are changed together in TTBRx_EL1. Since we keep the ASID
> + in TTBR1_EL1, this situation only occurs in the entry trampoline and
> + then only for entries in the walk cache, since the leaf translation
> + is unchanged. Work around the erratum by invalidating the walk cache
> + entries for the trampoline before entering the kernel proper.
>
> config QCOM_FALKOR_ERRATUM_1009
> bool "Falkor E1009: Prematurely complete a DSB after a TLBI"
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
> index 99d105048663..a5ec6ab5c711 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
> @@ -989,6 +989,16 @@ __ni_sys_trace:
> sub \tmp, \tmp, #(SWAPPER_DIR_SIZE + RESERVED_TTBR0_SIZE)
> bic \tmp, \tmp, #USER_ASID_FLAG
> msr ttbr1_el1, \tmp
> +#ifdef CONFIG_QCOM_FALKOR_ERRATUM_1003
> +alternative_if ARM64_WORKAROUND_QCOM_FALKOR_E1003
> + movk \tmp, #:abs_g2_nc:(TRAMP_VALIAS >> 12)
> + movk \tmp, #:abs_g1_nc:(TRAMP_VALIAS >> 12)
> + movk \tmp, #:abs_g0_nc:((TRAMP_VALIAS & (SZ_2M - 1)) >> 12)
What's the deal with effectively zeroing bits 27:22 of the TRAMP_VALIAS
address here? Is this an attempt to round down to section granularity
gone awry, or something else subtle which probably warrants documenting?
Robin.
> + isb
> + tlbi vae1, \tmp
> + dsb nsh
> +alternative_else_nop_endif
> +#endif /* CONFIG_QCOM_FALKOR_ERRATUM_1003 */
> .endm
>
> .macro tramp_unmap_kernel, tmp
>
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