[PATCH v2 00/17] arm64: Self-hosted trace related errata workarounds
Suzuki K Poulose
suzuki.poulose at arm.com
Fri Oct 8 02:57:08 PDT 2021
On 08/10/2021 10:52, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 10:25:03AM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
>> Hi Will
>>
>> On 08/10/2021 08:32, Will Deacon wrote:
>>> Hi Suzuki,
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 02:41:04PM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
>>>> This series adds CPU erratum work arounds related to the self-hosted
>>>> tracing. The list of affected errata handled in this series are :
>>>>
>>>> * TRBE may overwrite trace in FILL mode
>>>> - Arm Neoverse-N2 #2139208
>>>> - Cortex-A710 #211985
>>>>
>>>> * A TSB instruction may not flush the trace completely when executed
>>>> in trace prohibited region.
>>>>
>>>> - Arm Neoverse-N2 #2067961
>>>> - Cortex-A710 #2054223
>>>>
>>>> * TRBE may write to out-of-range address
>>>> - Arm Neoverse-N2 #2253138
>>>> - Cortex-A710 #2224489
>>>>
>>>> The series applies on the self-hosted/trbe fixes posted here [0].
>>>> A tree containing both the series is available here [1]
>>>
>>> Any chance you could put the arch/arm64/ bits at the start of the series,
>>> please? That way, I can queue them on their own branch which can be shared
>>> with the coresight tree.
>>
>> I could move the bits around. I have a question though.
>>
>> Will, Catalin, Mathieu,
>>
>> The workaround for these errata, at least two of them are
>> in the TRBE driver patches. Are we happy with enabling the Kconfig
>> entry in the kernel, without the CoreSight patches to implement the work
>> around ?
>
> I suppose you could move all the Kconfig changes into their own patch and
> stick it right at the end in the Coresight tree.
Cool, I will do that then. Thanks. I will send the updated series.
Suzuki
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