[PATCH 2/6] arm64: Allow mismatched 32-bit EL0 support
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Mon Nov 2 06:44:45 EST 2020
On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 04:13:53PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 11:18:47AM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 10:20:48PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > This means that if the first 32-bit-capable core is onlined late, then
> > > it will only get the base capabilities, but I think that's fine and
> > > consistent with our overall handling of hwcaps (which cannot appear
> > > dynamically to userspace).
> >
> > Yes but such bare 32-bit mode is entirely useless and I don't think we
> > should even pretend we have 32-bit. The compat hwcaps here would be
> > "half thumb fastmult edsp tls idiva idivt lpae evtstrm", statically
> > filled in. It's missing major bits like "vfp" and "neon" which are
> > necessary for the general purpose 32-bit EABI.
>
> So? If we found such a CPU during boot, would we refuse to online it because
> we consider it "entirely useless"? No!
We _do_ online it but as a 64-bit only CPU if there were no early 32-bit
CPUs since we are not updating the compat hwcaps anyway (and that's
handled automatically by WEAK_LOCAL_CPU_FEATURE; we do this in a few
places already).
> That said, given that it's _very_
> likely for the late CPUs to support vfp and neon, we could set those caps
> speculatively if the 64-bit cores have fpsimd (late onlining would be
> prevented for cores lacking those). Does the architecture allow you to
> implement both AArch64 and AArch32 at EL0, but only have fpsimd for AArch64?
Probably not but I don't want to butcher the cpufeature support further
and have compat hwcaps derived from ID_AA64* regs. I find this hack even
worse and I'd rather live with the partial hwcap information (and hope
user space doesn't read hwcaps anyway ;)).
I don't see why we should change this code further when the requirement
to the mobile vendors is to simply allow a 32-bit CPU to come up early.
> > As I said above, I think we would be even more inconsistent w.r.t.
> > HWCAPs if we require at least one early AArch32-capable CPU, otherwise
> > don't expose 32-bit at all. I don't see what we gain by allowing all
> > 32-bit CPUs to come in late, other than maybe saving an entry in the
> > cpufeature array.
>
> It's a combination of there not being a good reason to prevent the
> late-onlining and not gaining anything from the additional feature (I've
> already shown why it doesn't help with the vast majority of callsites).
I underlined above, this is not about preventing late onlining, only
preventing late 32-bit support. Late AArch32-capable CPUs will be
onlined just fine, only that if we haven't got any prior 32-bit CPU, we
no longer report the feature and the sysfs mask.
All I'm asking is something along the lines of the diff below instead of
forcing ARM64_HAS_32BIT_EL0 always on (untested):
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h
index 42868dbd29fd..f73631aeedae 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h
@@ -65,7 +65,8 @@
#define ARM64_HAS_ARMv8_4_TTL 55
#define ARM64_HAS_TLB_RANGE 56
#define ARM64_MTE 57
+#define ARM64_HAS_WEAK_32BIT_EL0 58
-#define ARM64_NCAPS 58
+#define ARM64_NCAPS 59
#endif /* __ASM_CPUCAPS_H */
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
index f7e7144af174..f8da673a9a20 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
@@ -584,7 +584,16 @@ static inline bool cpu_supports_mixed_endian_el0(void)
static inline bool system_supports_32bit_el0(void)
{
- return cpus_have_const_cap(ARM64_HAS_32BIT_EL0);
+ return __allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 ?
+ cpus_have_const_cap(ARM64_HAS_WEAK_32BIT_EL0) :
+ cpus_have_const_cap(ARM64_HAS_32BIT_EL0)
+}
+
+static inline bool system_has_mismatched_32bit_el0(void)
+{
+ return __allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 &&
+ cpus_have_const_cap(ARM64_HAS_WEAK_32BIT_EL0) &&
+ !cpus_have_const_cap(ARM64_HAS_32BIT_EL0)
}
static inline bool system_supports_4kb_granule(void)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index dcc165b3fc04..fd7554602c5e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -1809,6 +1809,15 @@ static const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities arm64_features[] = {
.field_pos = ID_AA64PFR0_EL0_SHIFT,
.min_field_value = ID_AA64PFR0_EL0_32BIT_64BIT,
},
+ {
+ .capability = ARM64_HAS_WEAK_32BIT_EL0,
+ .type = ARM64_CPUCAP_WEAK_LOCAL_CPU_FEATURE,
+ .matches = has_cpuid_feature,
+ .sys_reg = SYS_ID_AA64PFR0_EL1,
+ .sign = FTR_UNSIGNED,
+ .field_pos = ID_AA64PFR0_EL0_SHIFT,
+ .min_field_value = ID_AA64PFR0_EL0_32BIT_64BIT,
+ },
#ifdef CONFIG_KVM
{
.desc = "32-bit EL1 Support",
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