[PATCH v4 3/7] arm64: cpufeature: discover CPU support for MPAM
Gavin Shan
gshan at redhat.com
Tue Oct 8 22:50:16 PDT 2024
On 10/4/24 9:07 PM, Joey Gouly wrote:
> From: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
>
> ARMv8.4 adds support for 'Memory Partitioning And Monitoring' (MPAM)
> which describes an interface to cache and bandwidth controls wherever
> they appear in the system.
>
> Add support to detect MPAM. Like SVE, MPAM has an extra id register that
> describes some more properties, including the virtualisation support,
> which is optional. Detect this separately so we can detect
> mismatched/insane systems, but still use MPAM on the host even if the
> virtualisation support is missing.
>
> MPAM needs enabling at the highest implemented exception level, otherwise
> the register accesses trap. The 'enabled' flag is accessible to lower
> exception levels, but its in a register that traps when MPAM isn't enabled.
> The cpufeature 'matches' hook is extended to test this on one of the
> CPUs, so that firmware can emulate MPAM as disabled if it is reserved
> for use by secure world.
>
> Secondary CPUs that appear late could trip cpufeature's 'lower safe'
> behaviour after the MPAM properties have been advertised to user-space.
> Add a verify call to ensure late secondaries match the existing CPUs.
>
> (If you have a boot failure that bisects here its likely your CPUs
> advertise MPAM in the id registers, but firmware failed to either enable
> or MPAM, or emulate the trap as if it were disabled)
>
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly at arm.com>
> ---
> Changes since v3:
> * A proper conversion to sysreg
> ---
> .../arch/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.rst | 2 +
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 20 ++++
> arch/arm64/include/asm/cpu.h | 1 +
> arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h | 2 +
> arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 12 +++
> arch/arm64/include/asm/mpam.h | 32 ++++++
> arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile | 2 +
> arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 97 +++++++++++++++++++
> arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c | 4 +
> arch/arm64/kernel/mpam.c | 8 ++
> arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps | 1 +
> 11 files changed, 181 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/mpam.h
> create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kernel/mpam.c
>
[...]
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/mpam.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/mpam.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..a29dc58c2da5
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/mpam.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +/* Copyright (C) 2021 Arm Ltd. */
> +
> +#include <asm/mpam.h>
> +
> +#include <linux/jump_label.h>
> +
> +DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(arm64_mpam_has_hcr);
linux/jump_label.h has been included to asm/mpam.h. So we needn't include
it again.
Thanks,
Gavin
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