[PATCH V2] arm64: kernel: disable CNP on Carmel

Rich Wiley rwiley at nvidia.com
Wed Mar 24 00:28:09 GMT 2021


On NVIDIA Carmel cores, CNP behaves differently than it does on standard
ARM cores. On Carmel, if two cores have CNP enabled and share an L2 TLB
entry created by core0 for a specific ASID, a non-shareable TLBI from
core1 may still see the shared entry. On standard ARM cores, that TLBI
will invalidate the shared entry as well.

This causes issues with patchsets that attempt to do local TLBIs based
on cpumasks instead of broadcast TLBIs. Avoid these issues by disabling
CNP support for NVIDIA Carmel cores.

Signed-off-by: Rich Wiley <rwiley at nvidia.com>
---
 Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.rst |  3 +++
 arch/arm64/Kconfig                     | 10 ++++++++++
 arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h       |  3 ++-
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c         |  8 ++++++++
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c         |  3 +++
 5 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.rst b/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.rst
index 719510247292..d410a47ffa57 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.rst
@@ -130,6 +130,9 @@ stable kernels.
 | Marvell        | ARM-MMU-500     | #582743         | N/A                         |
 +----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------------------+
 +----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------------------+
+| NVIDIA         | Carmel Core     | N/A             | NVIDIA_CARMEL_CNP_ERRATUM   |
++----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------------------+
++----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------------------+
 | Freescale/NXP  | LS2080A/LS1043A | A-008585        | FSL_ERRATUM_A008585         |
 +----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------------------+
 +----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------------------+
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 5656e7aacd69..e4e1b6550115 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -810,6 +810,16 @@ config QCOM_FALKOR_ERRATUM_E1041
 
 	  If unsure, say Y.
 
+config NVIDIA_CARMEL_CNP_ERRATUM
+	bool "NVIDIA Carmel CNP: CNP on Carmel semantically different than ARM cores"
+	default y
+	help
+	  If CNP is enabled on Carmel cores, non-sharable TLBIs on a core will not
+	  invalidate shared TLB entries installed by a different core, as it would
+	  on standard ARM cores.
+
+	  If unsure, say Y.
+
 config SOCIONEXT_SYNQUACER_PREITS
 	bool "Socionext Synquacer: Workaround for GICv3 pre-ITS"
 	default y
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h
index b77d997b173b..c40f2490cd7b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h
@@ -66,7 +66,8 @@
 #define ARM64_WORKAROUND_1508412		58
 #define ARM64_HAS_LDAPR				59
 #define ARM64_KVM_PROTECTED_MODE		60
+#define ARM64_WORKAROUND_NVIDIA_CARMEL_CNP	61
 
-#define ARM64_NCAPS				61
+#define ARM64_NCAPS				62
 
 #endif /* __ASM_CPUCAPS_H */
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
index 506a1cd37973..e2c20c036442 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
@@ -525,6 +525,14 @@ const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities arm64_errata[] = {
 				  0, 0,
 				  1, 0),
 	},
+#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_NVIDIA_CARMEL_CNP_ERRATUM
+	{
+		/* NVIDIA Carmel */
+		.desc = "NVIDIA Carmel CNP erratum",
+		.capability = ARM64_WORKAROUND_NVIDIA_CARMEL_CNP,
+		ERRATA_MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS(MIDR_NVIDIA_CARMEL),
+	},
 #endif
 	{
 	}
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index 066030717a4c..424d5aa07fd8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -1324,6 +1324,9 @@ has_useable_cnp(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry, int scope)
 	 if (is_kdump_kernel())
 		return false;
 
+	if (cpus_have_const_cap(ARM64_WORKAROUND_NVIDIA_CARMEL_CNP))
+		return false;
+
 	return has_cpuid_feature(entry, scope);
 }
 
-- 
2.17.1




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