Buggy branch in __init_el2_gicv3?

Joakim Tjernlund Joakim.Tjernlund at infinera.com
Mon Feb 14 09:12:54 PST 2022


Just sent a patch, hope I got the commit msg right.

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From: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
Sent: 14 February 2022 17:26
To: Mark Rutland
Cc: Joakim Tjernlund; linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Buggy branch in __init_el2_gicv3?

On 2022-02-14 14:56, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 12:34:12PM +0000, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
>> In init_el2_state calls __init_el2_gicv3 which looks:
>>
>> /* GICv3 system register access */
>> .macro __init_el2_gicv3
>>      mrs     x0, id_aa64pfr0_el1
>>      ubfx    x0, x0, #ID_AA64PFR0_GIC_SHIFT, #4
>>      cbz     x0, .Lskip_gicv3_\@
>>
>>      mrs_s   x0, SYS_ICC_SRE_EL2
>>      orr     x0, x0, #ICC_SRE_EL2_SRE        // Set ICC_SRE_EL2.SRE==1
>>      orr     x0, x0, #ICC_SRE_EL2_ENABLE     // Set ICC_SRE_EL2.Enable==1
>>      msr_s   SYS_ICC_SRE_EL2, x0
>>      isb                                     // Make sure SRE is now set
>>      mrs_s   x0, SYS_ICC_SRE_EL2             // Read SRE back,
>>      tbz     x0, #0, 1f
>> //   tbz     x0, #0, .Lskip_gicv3_\@         // and check that it sticks
>>      msr_s   SYS_ICH_HCR_EL2, xzr            // Reset ICC_HCR_EL2 to defaults
>> .Lskip_gicv3_\@:
>> .endm
>>
>> Note the tbz     x0, #0, 1f, this instruction causes my A53 CPU to
>> jump far out of the macro and make the
>> CPU go into EL0, failing with an exception a bit later. I believe the
>> 1f is a bug and if I replace it with
>>  tbz x0, #0, .Lskip_gicv3_\@
>> the CPU continue too boot.
>
> You're right, that should be targetting `.Lskip_gicv3_\@`. It looks
> like that
> was left behind in commit:
>
>   114945d84a30a5fe ("arm64: Fix labels in el2_setup macros")
>
> Marc?

Yup, that's a glaring bug. My bad. Thanks for pointing that out.

Joakim, can you please write a patch and cc me?

Cheers,

         M.
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