[PATCH v3 1/2] arm64: cpufeature: Add WORKAROUND_DISABLE_CNP capability

Zeng Heng zengheng at huaweicloud.com
Mon Jun 1 04:19:59 PDT 2026


From: Zeng Heng <zengheng4 at huawei.com>

The NVIDIA Carmel CNP erratum is not the only case requiring CNP to be
disabled. Abstract this into a common WORKAROUND_DISABLE_CNP capability
to facilitate adding errata for future chips and reduce duplicate
checks in has_useable_cnp().

This serves as a prerequisite for the subsequent Hisilicon erratum
162100125.

Suggested-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Zeng Heng <zengheng4 at huawei.com>
---
 arch/arm64/Kconfig               | 4 ++++
 arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h | 4 ++--
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c   | 4 ++--
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c   | 2 +-
 arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps         | 2 +-
 5 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index fe60738e5943..f297517a83b9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -1315,9 +1315,13 @@ config QCOM_FALKOR_ERRATUM_E1041

 	  If unsure, say Y.

+config ARM64_WORKAROUND_DISABLE_CNP
+	bool
+
 config NVIDIA_CARMEL_CNP_ERRATUM
 	bool "NVIDIA Carmel CNP: CNP on Carmel semantically different than ARM cores"
 	default y
+	select ARM64_WORKAROUND_DISABLE_CNP
 	help
 	  If CNP is enabled on Carmel cores, non-sharable TLBIs on a core will not
 	  invalidate shared TLB entries installed by a different core, as it would
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h
index d0d3cdd5763c..25c61cda901c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h
@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ cpucap_is_possible(const unsigned int cap)
 		return IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM64_ERRATUM_2658417);
 	case ARM64_WORKAROUND_CAVIUM_23154:
 		return IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CAVIUM_ERRATUM_23154);
-	case ARM64_WORKAROUND_NVIDIA_CARMEL_CNP:
-		return IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NVIDIA_CARMEL_CNP_ERRATUM);
+	case ARM64_WORKAROUND_DISABLE_CNP:
+		return IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM64_WORKAROUND_DISABLE_CNP);
 	case ARM64_WORKAROUND_REPEAT_TLBI:
 		return IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM64_WORKAROUND_REPEAT_TLBI);
 	case ARM64_WORKAROUND_SPECULATIVE_SSBS:
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
index 5377e4c2eba2..b0db946568b7 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
@@ -801,11 +801,11 @@ const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities arm64_errata[] = {
 				  1, 0),
 	},
 #endif
-#ifdef CONFIG_NVIDIA_CARMEL_CNP_ERRATUM
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_WORKAROUND_DISABLE_CNP
 	{
 		/* NVIDIA Carmel */
 		.desc = "NVIDIA Carmel CNP erratum",
-		.capability = ARM64_WORKAROUND_NVIDIA_CARMEL_CNP,
+		.capability = ARM64_WORKAROUND_DISABLE_CNP,
 		ERRATA_MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS(MIDR_NVIDIA_CARMEL),
 	},
 #endif
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index 6d53bb15cf7b..20c5f24f74a9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -1785,7 +1785,7 @@ has_useable_cnp(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry, int scope)
 	if (is_kdump_kernel())
 		return false;

-	if (cpus_have_cap(ARM64_WORKAROUND_NVIDIA_CARMEL_CNP))
+	if (cpus_have_cap(ARM64_WORKAROUND_DISABLE_CNP))
 		return false;

 	return has_cpuid_feature(entry, scope);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps b/arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps
index 811c2479e82d..9b85a84f6fd4 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps
+++ b/arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ WORKAROUND_CAVIUM_TX2_219_PRFM
 WORKAROUND_CAVIUM_TX2_219_TVM
 WORKAROUND_CLEAN_CACHE
 WORKAROUND_DEVICE_LOAD_ACQUIRE
-WORKAROUND_NVIDIA_CARMEL_CNP
+WORKAROUND_DISABLE_CNP
 WORKAROUND_PMUV3_IMPDEF_TRAPS
 WORKAROUND_QCOM_FALKOR_E1003
 WORKAROUND_QCOM_ORYON_CNTVOFF
--
2.43.0




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