[PATCH v4 1/1] arm64/cpufeature: Optionally disable MTE via command-line

yee.lee at mediatek.com yee.lee at mediatek.com
Tue Aug 3 00:08:22 PDT 2021


From: Yee Lee <yee.lee at mediatek.com>

MTE support needs to be optionally disabled in runtime 
for HW issue workaround, FW development and some 
evaluation works on system resource and performance.

This patch makes two changes:
(1) moves init of tag-allocation bits(ATA/ATA0) to
cpu_enable_mte() as not cached in TLB.

(2) allows ID_AA64PFR1_EL1.MTE to be overridden on
its shadow value by giving "arm64.nomte" on cmdline.

When the feature value is off, ATA and TCF will not set 
and the related functionalities are accordingly suppressed.

Suggested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Suggested-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Yee Lee <yee.lee at mediatek.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 +++
 arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h                 | 3 +--
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c                  | 3 +++
 arch/arm64/kernel/idreg-override.c              | 2 ++
 4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index bdb22006f713..6f257e39d89e 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -380,6 +380,9 @@
 	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
 			support
 
+	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
+			support
+
 	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
 
 	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h
index 7b9c3acba684..e3e2c93b35f4 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h
@@ -698,8 +698,7 @@
 	(SCTLR_ELx_M    | SCTLR_ELx_C    | SCTLR_ELx_SA   | SCTLR_EL1_SA0   | \
 	 SCTLR_EL1_SED  | SCTLR_ELx_I    | SCTLR_EL1_DZE  | SCTLR_EL1_UCT   | \
 	 SCTLR_EL1_NTWE | SCTLR_ELx_IESB | SCTLR_EL1_SPAN | SCTLR_ELx_ITFSB | \
-	 SCTLR_ELx_ATA  | SCTLR_EL1_ATA0 | ENDIAN_SET_EL1 | SCTLR_EL1_UCI   | \
-	 SCTLR_EL1_EPAN | SCTLR_EL1_RES1)
+	 ENDIAN_SET_EL1 | SCTLR_EL1_UCI  | SCTLR_EL1_EPAN | SCTLR_EL1_RES1)
 
 /* MAIR_ELx memory attributes (used by Linux) */
 #define MAIR_ATTR_DEVICE_nGnRnE		UL(0x00)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index 0ead8bfedf20..51e6bf4bb7b5 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -1843,6 +1843,9 @@ static void bti_enable(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *__unused)
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_MTE
 static void cpu_enable_mte(struct arm64_cpu_capabilities const *cap)
 {
+	sysreg_clear_set(sctlr_el1, 0, SCTLR_ELx_ATA | SCTLR_EL1_ATA0);
+	isb();
+
 	/*
 	 * Clear the tags in the zero page. This needs to be done via the
 	 * linear map which has the Tagged attribute.
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/idreg-override.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/idreg-override.c
index 53a381a7f65d..d8e606fe3c21 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/idreg-override.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/idreg-override.c
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ static const struct ftr_set_desc pfr1 __initconst = {
 	.override	= &id_aa64pfr1_override,
 	.fields		= {
 	        { "bt", ID_AA64PFR1_BT_SHIFT },
+		{ "mte", ID_AA64PFR1_MTE_SHIFT},
 		{}
 	},
 };
@@ -100,6 +101,7 @@ static const struct {
 	{ "arm64.nopauth",
 	  "id_aa64isar1.gpi=0 id_aa64isar1.gpa=0 "
 	  "id_aa64isar1.api=0 id_aa64isar1.apa=0"	   },
+	{ "arm64.nomte",		"id_aa64pfr1.mte=0" },
 	{ "nokaslr",			"kaslr.disabled=1" },
 };
 
-- 
2.18.0


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