[PATCH 0/2] riscv: qspinlock: errata: Add ERRATA_THEAD_WRITE_ONCE fixup

Inochi Amaoto inochiama at gmail.com
Sun Dec 15 21:05:48 PST 2024


On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 09:30:37AM -0500, guoren at kernel.org wrote:
> From: Guo Ren <guoren at linux.alibaba.com>
> 
> The early version of T-Head C9xx cores has a store merge buffer
> delay problem. The store merge buffer could improve the store queue
> performance by merging multi-store requests, but when there are not
> continued store requests, the prior single store request would be
> waiting in the store queue for a long time. That would cause
> significant problems for communication between multi-cores. This
> problem was found on sg2042 & th1520 platforms with the qspinlock
> lock torture test.
> 
> The orignal patch is from:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20231225125847.2778638-5-guoren@kernel.org/
> 
> Guo Ren (2):
>   riscv: Move vendor errata definitions into vendorid_list.h
>   riscv: qspinlock: errata: Add ERRATA_THEAD_WRITE_ONCE fixup
> 
>  arch/riscv/Kconfig.errata              | 19 +++++++++++++++
>  arch/riscv/errata/thead/errata.c       | 20 ++++++++++++++++
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/errata_list.h   | 17 -------------
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/rwonce.h        | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/vendorid_list.h | 18 ++++++++++++++
>  include/asm-generic/rwonce.h           |  2 ++
>  6 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/riscv/include/asm/rwonce.h
> 
> -- 
> 2.40.1
> 

It works on SG2042.

Tested-by: Inochi Amaoto <inochiama at gmail.com>



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