[PATCH v6 00/15] arm64: Self-hosted trace related errata workarounds
Mathieu Poirier
mathieu.poirier at linaro.org
Wed Oct 20 08:42:07 PDT 2021
On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 05:31:38PM +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 coresight/next. The series has been reordered
> to make it easier to merge the patches via arm64 tree and the coresight
> tree.
>
> Patches 1-4 are could be picked up via arm64 tree. The rest can go via
> the coresight tree. The Kconfig items for the TRBE errata are initially
> dropped in with dependency on COMPILE_TEST. These are dropped only after
> the driver is equipped with the work around in later patches.
>
>
> A tree is available here :
>
> git at git.gitlab.arm.com:linux-arm/linux-skp.git coresight/errata/trbe-tsb-n2-a710/v6
>
> Changes since v5:
> * https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211014223125.2605031-1-suzuki.poulose@arm.com
> - Fix typo in the Kconfig symbol usage in errata listing (Will)
> - Fix typo in commit description for
> "arm64: errata: Add detection for TRBE overwrite in FILL mode"
> - Fix commit description checkpatch warnings on column length for:
> "arm64: errata: Add detection for TRBE write to out-of-range"
> - Collected Reviews/Acks from Mathieu/Anshuman/Will
>
> Changes since v4:
> * https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211012131743.2040596-1-suzuki.poulose@arm.com
>
> - Fix WARN on trbe driver probe on a hotplugged CPU, by making
> sure that the arm_trbe_probe_cpu() is called from non-premptible
> context. this_cpu_has_cap() doesn't like to be called from a
> preemptible() context.
>
> - Fix Kconfig text issues pointed out by Randy
>
> Changes since v3:
>
> - Fix missing Kconfig selection for TSB flush failure erratum (Will)
> Merged the Kconfig changes to the core patch for TSB.
> - Use COMPILE_TEST dependency for the TRBE work arounds instead of
> delaying the Kconfig entries.
>
> Changes since v2:
> * https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210921134121.2423546-1-suzuki.poulose@arm.com
> - Dropped patch adding a helper to reach cpudata from perf handle
> - Split the TSB erratum work around patch to split the Kconfig/erratum
> list update changes(pushed to the end of the series).
> - Added wrappers to check the erratum :
> trbe_has_erratum(cpudata, TRBE_ERRATUM_<TITLE>) -> trbe_may_<title>
> - More ASCII art explanation on workaround.
>
> Changes since v1:
> * https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210728135217.591173-1-suzuki.poulose@arm.com
> - Added a fix to the TRBE driver handling of sink_specific data
> - Added more description and ASCII art for overwrite in FILL mode
> work around
> - Added another TRBE erratum to the list.
> "TRBE may write to out-of-range address"
> Patches from 12-17
> - Added comment to list the expectations around TSB erratum workaround.
>
>
>
> Suzuki K Poulose (15):
> arm64: Add Neoverse-N2, Cortex-A710 CPU part definition
> arm64: errata: Add detection for TRBE overwrite in FILL mode
> arm64: errata: Add workaround for TSB flush failures
> arm64: errata: Add detection for TRBE write to out-of-range
> coresight: trbe: Add a helper to calculate the trace generated
> coresight: trbe: Add a helper to pad a given buffer area
> coresight: trbe: Decouple buffer base from the hardware base
> coresight: trbe: Allow driver to choose a different alignment
> coresight: trbe: Add infrastructure for Errata handling
> coresight: trbe: Workaround TRBE errata overwrite in FILL mode
> coresight: trbe: Add a helper to determine the minimum buffer size
> coresight: trbe: Make sure we have enough space
> coresight: trbe: Work around write to out of range
> arm64: errata: Enable workaround for TRBE overwrite in FILL mode
> arm64: errata: Enable TRBE workaround for write to out-of-range
> address
>
> Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.rst | 12 +
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 111 ++++++
> arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h | 16 +-
> arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h | 4 +
> arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c | 64 +++
> arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps | 3 +
> drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c | 394 +++++++++++++++++--
> 7 files changed, 567 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
I have applied this set.
Thanks,
Mathieu
>
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