[PATCH v3 15/16] arm64: errata: Advertise the workaround for TSB flush failures

Will Deacon will at kernel.org
Mon Oct 11 03:18:52 PDT 2021


On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 07:29:05PM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> Advertise the workaround for the TSB flush failures via
> Kconfig entries.
> 
> Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier at linaro.org>
> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier at linaro.org>
> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
> ---
> Changes since previous:
>   - Split the Kconfig/erratum updates to keep the conflicts
>     minimal with the other Kconfig updates in TRBE errata
>     I have retained the tags
> ---
>  Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.rst |  4 ++++
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig                     | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 35 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.rst b/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.rst
> index 2f99229d993c..569a92411dcd 100644
> --- a/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.rst
> @@ -94,6 +94,8 @@ stable kernels.
>  +----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------------------+
>  | ARM            | Cortex-A710     | #2119858        | ARM64_ERRATUM_2119858       |
>  +----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------------------+
> +| ARM            | Cortex-A710     | #2054223        | ARM64_ERRATUM_2054223       |
> ++----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------------------+
>  | ARM            | Neoverse-N1     | #1188873,1418040| ARM64_ERRATUM_1418040       |
>  +----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------------------+
>  | ARM            | Neoverse-N1     | #1349291        | N/A                         |
> @@ -102,6 +104,8 @@ stable kernels.
>  +----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------------------+
>  | ARM            | Neoverse-N2     | #2139208        | ARM64_ERRATUM_2139208       |
>  +----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------------------+
> +| ARM            | Neoverse-N2     | #2067961        | ARM64_ERRATUM_2067961       |
> ++----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------------------+
>  | ARM            | MMU-500         | #841119,826419  | N/A                         |
>  +----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------------------+
>  +----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------------------+
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index eac4030322df..0764774e12bb 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -705,6 +705,37 @@ config ARM64_ERRATUM_2139208
>  
>  	  If unsure, say Y.
>  
> +config ARM64_WORKAROUND_TSB_FLUSH_FAILURE
> +	bool
> +
> +config ARM64_ERRATUM_2054223
> +	bool "Cortex-A710: 2054223: workaround TSB instruction failing to flush trace"
> +	default y
> +	help
> +	  Enable workaround for ARM Cortex-A710 erratum 2054223
> +
> +	  Affected cores may fail to flush the trace data on a TSB instruction, when
> +	  the PE is in trace prohibited state. This will cause losing a few bytes
> +	  of the trace cached.
> +
> +	  Workaround is to issue two TSB consecutively on affected cores.
> +
> +	  If unsure, say Y.
> +
> +config ARM64_ERRATUM_2067961
> +	bool "Neoverse-N2: 2067961: workaround TSB instruction failing to flush trace"
> +	default y
> +	help
> +	  Enable workaround for ARM Neoverse-N2 erratum 2067961
> +
> +	  Affected cores may fail to flush the trace data on a TSB instruction, when
> +	  the PE is in trace prohibited state. This will cause losing a few bytes
> +	  of the trace cached.
> +
> +	  Workaround is to issue two TSB consecutively on affected cores.
> +
> +	  If unsure, say Y.

Shouldn't these two be selecting the workaround?

Will



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