[PATCH] arm64: dts: mediatek: mt8195: Set DSU PMU status to fail
Nícolas F. R. A. Prado
nfraprado at collabora.com
Fri Jul 21 08:54:08 PDT 2023
On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 10:16:44AM +0200, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno wrote:
> Il 20/07/23 22:07, Nícolas F. R. A. Prado ha scritto:
> > The DSU PMU allows monitoring performance events in the DSU cluster,
> > which is done by configuring and reading back values from the DSU PMU
> > system registers. However, for write-access to be allowed by ELs lower
> > than EL3, the EL3 firmware needs to update the setting on the ACTLR3_EL3
> > register, as it is disallowed by default.
>
> Typo: ACTLR_EL2, ACTLR_EL3 bit 12 must be set if SCR.NS is 1;
> ACTLR_EL3 bit 12 must be set if SCR.NS is 0.
>
> On MT8195 Chromebooks, SCR.NS is 1 - hence ACTLR_EL2/EL3 must have BIT(12) set,
> but at least ACTLR_EL2 doesn't have it set.
>
> I haven't verified EL3, but that doesn't matter, since both need to be set.
The kernel is running at EL2 (as I verified from CurrentEL), so only ACTLR_EL3
needs to be set. ACTLR_EL2 controls whether EL1 can write to the register (in
non-secure mode) [1], which doesn't matter in this case.
[1] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/101430/r1p2/Register-descriptions/AArch64-system-registers/ACTLR-EL2--Auxiliary-Control-Register--EL2
Thanks,
Nícolas
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