[PATCH v2 14/18] arm64: erratum: Work around Falkor erratum #E1003 in trampoline code

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Thu Nov 30 09:19:54 PST 2017


Hi Robin,

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 05:06:48PM +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:
> 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?

Bugger, missing a '~'. I wish I had a good way to test this stuff :(

Thanks,

Will



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