[PATCH v2 15/17] arm64: Add erratum detection for TRBE write to out-of-range
Anshuman Khandual
anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Wed Sep 22 03:59:09 PDT 2021
On 9/21/21 7:11 PM, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> Arm Neoverse-N2 and Cortex-A710 cores are affected by an erratum where the
> trbe, under some circumstances, might write upto 64bytes to an address after
> the Limit as programmed by the TRBLIMITR_EL1.LIMIT. This might -
>
> - Corrupt a page in the ring buffer, which may corrupt trace from a
> previous session, consumed by userspace.
> - Hit the guard page at the end of the vmalloc area and raise a fault.
>
> To keep the handling simpler, we always leave the last page from the
> range, which TRBE is allowed to write. This can be achieved by ensuring
> that we always have more than a PAGE worth space in the range, while
> calculating the LIMIT for TRBE. And then the LIMIT pointer can be adjusted
> to leave the PAGE (TRBLIMITR.LIMIT -= PAGE_SIZE), out of the TRBE range
> while enabling it. This makes sure that the TRBE will only write to an area
> within its allowed limit (i.e, [head-head+size]) and we do not have to handle
> address faults within the driver.
>
> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier at linaro.org>
> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach at linaro.org>
> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
> index bdbeac75ead6..e2978b89d4b8 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
> @@ -364,6 +364,18 @@ static const struct midr_range tsb_flush_fail_cpus[] = {
> };
> #endif /* CONFIG_ARM64_WORKAROUND_TSB_FLUSH_FAILURE */
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_WORKAROUND_TRBE_WRITE_OUT_OF_RANGE
> +static struct midr_range trbe_write_out_of_range_cpus[] = {
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_ERRATUM_2253138
> + MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS(MIDR_NEOVERSE_N2),
> +#endif
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_ERRATUM_2224489
> + MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS(MIDR_CORTEX_A710),
> +#endif
> + {},
> +};
> +#endif /* CONFIG_ARM64_WORKAROUND_TRBE_WRITE_OUT_OF_RANGE */
> +
> const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities arm64_errata[] = {
> #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_WORKAROUND_CLEAN_CACHE
> {
> @@ -577,6 +589,14 @@ const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities arm64_errata[] = {
> .capability = ARM64_WORKAROUND_TSB_FLUSH_FAILURE,
> ERRATA_MIDR_RANGE_LIST(tsb_flush_fail_cpus),
> },
> +#endif
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_WORKAROUND_TRBE_WRITE_OUT_OF_RANGE
> + {
> + .desc = "ARM erratum 2253138 or 2224489",
> + .capability = ARM64_WORKAROUND_TRBE_WRITE_OUT_OF_RANGE,
> + .type = ARM64_CPUCAP_WEAK_LOCAL_CPU_FEATURE,
> + CAP_MIDR_RANGE_LIST(trbe_write_out_of_range_cpus),
> + },
> #endif
> {
> }
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps b/arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps
> index 2102e15af43d..90628638e0f9 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps
> +++ b/arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps
> @@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ WORKAROUND_1508412
> WORKAROUND_1542419
> WORKAROUND_TRBE_OVERWRITE_FILL_MODE
> WORKAROUND_TSB_FLUSH_FAILURE
> +WORKAROUND_TRBE_WRITE_OUT_OF_RANGE
> WORKAROUND_CAVIUM_23154
> WORKAROUND_CAVIUM_27456
> WORKAROUND_CAVIUM_30115
>
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