[PATCH] platform: generic: thead: fix stale TLB entries for th1520/sg2042

Inochi Amaoto inochiama at outlook.com
Fri Sep 15 01:44:10 PDT 2023


>On 14 Sep 2023, at 05:27, Inochi Amaoto <inochiama at outlook.com> wrote:
>>
>> The TLB entries remain functional all the time once added in T-HEAD th1520
>> and Sophgo sg2042 even if the MMU is then disabled afterwards. If there
>> are some stale TLB entries that contains the address of SBI, it will cause
>> unexpected memory access and issue a illegal instruction error. To avoid
>> this, a TLB flush is needed to drop these TLB entries before any memory
>> access in the trap handler.
>
>Another thought: is this just the DTLB, or is the ITLB also affected?
>Because if the ITLB is affected then there’s no guarantee there isn’t
>an entry for the trap handler’s address that gets used and stops the
>trap handler from running? Not that you could really do anything in that
>case, you’d just be hosed and need a chip that isn’t broken.
>
>Jess

AFAIK, this problem only affects D-TLB, and the trap entry is not affected.
Although SBI issues illegal instruction error, this is influenced by D-TLB
and can be resolved by flushing stale entries, which seems to be an internal
bug for some T-HEAD cpus.

Thanks,
Inochi

>> To handle this workaroud, add a custom trap handler with executing TLB flush
>> first in the T-HEAD platform to fix affected socs.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Inochi Amaoto <inochiama at outlook.com>
>> ---
>> Changed from RFC v2:
>> 1. rollback the moving of trap helper macro to sbi_trap.h
>> 2. use direct jump in custom trap handler to access _trap_handler
>>
>> Changed from RFC:
>> 1. use custom trap handler instead of asm alternative.
>> 2. change description
>>
>> ---
>> platform/generic/Kconfig                    |  4 ++
>> platform/generic/configs/defconfig          |  1 +
>> platform/generic/thead/objects.mk           | 10 ++++
>> platform/generic/thead/thead-generic.c      | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++
>> platform/generic/thead/thead-trap-handler.S | 17 ++++++
>> 5 files changed, 89 insertions(+)
>> create mode 100644 platform/generic/thead/objects.mk
>> create mode 100644 platform/generic/thead/thead-generic.c
>> create mode 100644 platform/generic/thead/thead-trap-handler.S
>>
>> diff --git a/platform/generic/Kconfig b/platform/generic/Kconfig
>> index 72768ed..68dd58c 100644
>> --- a/platform/generic/Kconfig
>> +++ b/platform/generic/Kconfig
>> @@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ config PLATFORM_STARFIVE_JH7110
>> bool "StarFive JH7110 support"
>> default n
>>
>> +config PLATFORM_THEAD_GENERIC
>> + bool "THEAD C9xx generic platform support"
>> + default n
>> +
>> source "$(OPENSBI_SRC_DIR)/platform/generic/andes/Kconfig"
>>
>> endif
>> diff --git a/platform/generic/configs/defconfig b/platform/generic/configs/defconfig
>> index 634d410..26f0874 100644
>> --- a/platform/generic/configs/defconfig
>> +++ b/platform/generic/configs/defconfig
>> @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ CONFIG_PLATFORM_RENESAS_RZFIVE=y
>> CONFIG_PLATFORM_SIFIVE_FU540=y
>> CONFIG_PLATFORM_SIFIVE_FU740=y
>> CONFIG_PLATFORM_STARFIVE_JH7110=y
>> +CONFIG_PLATFORM_THEAD_GENERIC=y
>> CONFIG_FDT_GPIO=y
>> CONFIG_FDT_GPIO_DESIGNWARE=y
>> CONFIG_FDT_GPIO_SIFIVE=y
>> diff --git a/platform/generic/thead/objects.mk b/platform/generic/thead/objects.mk
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..cbbab18
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/platform/generic/thead/objects.mk
>> @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
>> +#
>> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
>> +#
>> +# Copyright (C) 2023 Inochi Amaoto <inochiama at outlook.com>
>> +# Copyright (C) 2023 Alibaba Group Holding Limited.
>> +#
>> +
>> +carray-platform_override_modules-$(CONFIG_PLATFORM_THEAD_GENERIC) += thead_generic
>> +platform-objs-$(CONFIG_PLATFORM_THEAD_GENERIC) += thead/thead-generic.o
>> +platform-objs-$(CONFIG_PLATFORM_THEAD_GENERIC) += thead/thead-trap-handler.o
>> diff --git a/platform/generic/thead/thead-generic.c b/platform/generic/thead/thead-generic.c
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..6cbe44c
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/platform/generic/thead/thead-generic.c
>> @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
>> +/*
>> + * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
>> + *
>> + * Authors:
>> + *   Inochi Amaoto <inochiama at outlook.com>
>> + *
>> + */
>> +
>> +#include <platform_override.h>
>> +#include <sbi/riscv_barrier.h>
>> +#include <sbi/sbi_const.h>
>> +#include <sbi/sbi_platform.h>
>> +#include <sbi/sbi_scratch.h>
>> +#include <sbi/sbi_string.h>
>> +#include <sbi_utils/fdt/fdt_helper.h>
>> +
>> +#define THEAD_QUIRK_SFENCE_FIXUP BIT(0)
>> +
>> +#define thead_get_symbol_local_address(_name) \
>> + ({ \
>> + register unsigned long __v; \
>> + __asm__ __volatile__ ("lla %0, " STRINGIFY(_name) \
>> +     : "=r"(__v) \
>> +     : \
>> +     : "memory"); \
>> + (void*)__v; \
>> + })
>> +
>> +void thead_register_sfence_trap_handler(void)
>> +{
>> + void* trap_hanlder_addr = thead_get_symbol_local_address(
>> + _thead_sfence_trap_handler);
>> +
>> + csr_write(CSR_MTVEC, trap_hanlder_addr);
>> +}
>> +
>> +static int thead_generic_early_init(bool cold_boot,
>> +    const struct fdt_match *match)
>> +{
>> + unsigned long quirks = (unsigned long)match->data;
>> +
>> + if (quirks & THEAD_QUIRK_SFENCE_FIXUP)
>> + thead_register_sfence_trap_handler();
>> +
>> + return 0;
>> +}
>> +
>> +static const struct fdt_match thead_generic_match[] = {
>> + { .compatible = "thead,th1520",
>> +  .data = (void*)THEAD_QUIRK_SFENCE_FIXUP },
>> + { },
>> +};
>> +
>> +const struct platform_override thead_generic = {
>> + .match_table = thead_generic_match,
>> + .early_init = thead_generic_early_init,
>> +};
>> diff --git a/platform/generic/thead/thead-trap-handler.S b/platform/generic/thead/thead-trap-handler.S
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..6c99f32
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/platform/generic/thead/thead-trap-handler.S
>> @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
>> +/*
>> + * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
>> + *
>> + * Authors:
>> + *   Inochi Amaoto <inochiama at outlook.com>
>> + *
>> + */
>> +
>> +#include <sbi/riscv_elf.h>
>> +#include <sbi/sbi_trap.h>
>> +
>> + .section .entry, "ax", %progbits
>> + .align 3
>> + .globl _thead_sfence_trap_handler
>> +_thead_sfence_trap_handler:
>> + sfence.vma t0, zero
>> + j _trap_handler
>> --
>> 2.42.0
>>



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