[PATCH] arm64: cpufeature: Fix CTR_EL0 field definitions

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Mon Feb 19 06:41:44 PST 2018


Our field definitions for CTR_EL0 suffer from a number of problems:

  - The IDC and DIC fields are missing, which causes us to enable CTR
    trapping on CPUs with either of these returning non-zero values.

  - The ERG is FTR_LOWER_SAFE, whereas it should be treated like CWG as
    FTR_HIGHER_SAFE so that applications can use it to avoid false sharing.

  - [nit] A RES1 field is described as "RAO"

This patch updates the CTR_EL0 field definitions to fix these issues.

Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Shanker Donthineni <shankerd at codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index 29b1f873e337..2985a067fc13 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -199,9 +199,11 @@ static const struct arm64_ftr_bits ftr_id_aa64mmfr2[] = {
 };
 
 static const struct arm64_ftr_bits ftr_ctr[] = {
-	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_VISIBLE, FTR_STRICT, FTR_EXACT, 31, 1, 1),	/* RAO */
+	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_VISIBLE, FTR_STRICT, FTR_EXACT, 31, 1, 1),		/* RES1 */
+	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_VISIBLE, FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, 29, 1, 1),	/* DIC */
+	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_VISIBLE, FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, 28, 1, 1),	/* IDC */
 	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_VISIBLE, FTR_STRICT, FTR_HIGHER_SAFE, 24, 4, 0),	/* CWG */
-	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_VISIBLE, FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, 20, 4, 0),	/* ERG */
+	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_VISIBLE, FTR_STRICT, FTR_HIGHER_SAFE, 20, 4, 0),	/* ERG */
 	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_VISIBLE, FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, 16, 4, 1),	/* DminLine */
 	/*
 	 * Linux can handle differing I-cache policies. Userspace JITs will
-- 
2.1.4




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