[PATCH] arm_mpam: Do not access MPAMF_ESR on MSCs that do not have it
Ping Li
leeonion.muyu at gmail.com
Mon Oct 19 19:57:04 PDT 2026
Hi Ben,
You are right, thanks for the pointers to the spec.
Our MSC is an MPAM v1.0 implementation without MPAMF_ESR, and the RTL
responds to accesses of unimplemented registers with a bus error
instead of RAZ/WI - which is what motivated the patch. Reading
MPAMF_ESR from the CPU therefore raises an external abort rather than
reading as zero.
Per RLNXX this implementation is not compliant, so the fix belongs in
hardware: the MSC design team will change accesses to unimplemented
registers to be RAZ/WI, as the specification requires.
With that in place the existing driver code is safe, so I am
withdrawing this patch.
Thanks,
Ping
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