linux-toradex.git/Documentation/arm64, branch v4.11-rc2 Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules irqchip/gicv3-its: Add workaround for QDF2400 ITS erratum 0065 2017-03-07T14:34:27+00:00 Shanker Donthineni shankerd@codeaurora.org 2017-03-07T14:20:38+00:00 90922a2d03d84de36bf8a9979d62580102f31a92 On Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies QDF2400 SoCs, the ITS hardware implementation uses 16Bytes for Interrupt Translation Entry (ITE), but reports an incorrect value of 8Bytes in GITS_TYPER.ITTE_size. It might cause kernel memory corruption depending on the number of MSI(x) that are configured and the amount of memory that has been allocated for ITEs in its_create_device(). This patch fixes the potential memory corruption by setting the correct ITE size to 16Bytes. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> 
On Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies QDF2400 SoCs, the ITS hardware
implementation uses 16Bytes for Interrupt Translation Entry (ITE),
but reports an incorrect value of 8Bytes in GITS_TYPER.ITTE_size.

It might cause kernel memory corruption depending on the number
of MSI(x) that are configured and the amount of memory that has
been allocated for ITEs in its_create_device().

This patch fixes the potential memory corruption by setting the
correct ITE size to 16Bytes.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
arm64: Work around Falkor erratum 1003 2017-02-10T11:22:12+00:00 Christopher Covington cov@codeaurora.org 2017-02-08T20:08:37+00:00 38fd94b0275c91071157a03cc27676909b23dcde The Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies Falkor v1 CPU may allocate TLB entries using an incorrect ASID when TTBRx_EL1 is being updated. When the erratum is triggered, page table entries using the new translation table base address (BADDR) will be allocated into the TLB using the old ASID. All circumstances leading to the incorrect ASID being cached in the TLB arise when software writes TTBRx_EL1[ASID] and TTBRx_EL1[BADDR], a memory operation is in the process of performing a translation using the specific TTBRx_EL1 being written, and the memory operation uses a translation table descriptor designated as non-global. EL2 and EL3 code changing the EL1&0 ASID is not subject to this erratum because hardware is prohibited from performing translations from an out-of-context translation regime. Consider the following pseudo code. write new BADDR and ASID values to TTBRx_EL1 Replacing the above sequence with the one below will ensure that no TLB entries with an incorrect ASID are used by software. write reserved value to TTBRx_EL1[ASID] ISB write new value to TTBRx_EL1[BADDR] ISB write new value to TTBRx_EL1[ASID] ISB When the above sequence is used, page table entries using the new BADDR value may still be incorrectly allocated into the TLB using the reserved ASID. Yet this will not reduce functionality, since TLB entries incorrectly tagged with the reserved ASID will never be hit by a later instruction. Based on work by Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@codeaurora.org> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Christopher Covington <cov@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> 
The Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies Falkor v1 CPU may allocate TLB entries
using an incorrect ASID when TTBRx_EL1 is being updated. When the erratum
is triggered, page table entries using the new translation table base
address (BADDR) will be allocated into the TLB using the old ASID. All
circumstances leading to the incorrect ASID being cached in the TLB arise
when software writes TTBRx_EL1[ASID] and TTBRx_EL1[BADDR], a memory
operation is in the process of performing a translation using the specific
TTBRx_EL1 being written, and the memory operation uses a translation table
descriptor designated as non-global. EL2 and EL3 code changing the EL1&0
ASID is not subject to this erratum because hardware is prohibited from
performing translations from an out-of-context translation regime.

Consider the following pseudo code.

  write new BADDR and ASID values to TTBRx_EL1

Replacing the above sequence with the one below will ensure that no TLB
entries with an incorrect ASID are used by software.

  write reserved value to TTBRx_EL1[ASID]
  ISB
  write new value to TTBRx_EL1[BADDR]
  ISB
  write new value to TTBRx_EL1[ASID]
  ISB

When the above sequence is used, page table entries using the new BADDR
value may still be incorrectly allocated into the TLB using the reserved
ASID. Yet this will not reduce functionality, since TLB entries incorrectly
tagged with the reserved ASID will never be hit by a later instruction.

Based on work by Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@codeaurora.org>

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christopher Covington <cov@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
arm64: arch_timer: document Hisilicon erratum 161010101 2017-02-09T18:00:47+00:00 Ding Tianhong dingtianhong@huawei.com 2017-02-09T17:00:34+00:00 6e01398fe4505ac4ac963fe0ca44b25e46783fef Now that we have a workaround for Hisilicon erratum 161010101, notes this in the arm64 silicon-errata document. The new config option is too long to fit in the existing kconfig column, so this is widened to accomodate it. At the same time, an existing whitespace error is corrected, and the existing pattern of a line space between vendors is enforced for recent additions. Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com> [Mark: split patch, reword commit message, rework table] Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> 
Now that we have a workaround for Hisilicon erratum 161010101, notes
this in the arm64 silicon-errata document.

The new config option is too long to fit in the existing kconfig column,
so this is widened to accomodate it. At the same time, an existing
whitespace error is corrected, and the existing pattern of a line space
between vendors is enforced for recent additions.

Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
[Mark: split patch, reword commit message, rework table]
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
arm64: Work around Falkor erratum 1009 2017-02-01T15:41:50+00:00 Christopher Covington cov@codeaurora.org 2017-01-31T17:50:19+00:00 d9ff80f83ecbf4cbdf56d32d01c312498e4fb1cd During a TLB invalidate sequence targeting the inner shareable domain, Falkor may prematurely complete the DSB before all loads and stores using the old translation are observed. Instruction fetches are not subject to the conditions of this erratum. If the original code sequence includes multiple TLB invalidate instructions followed by a single DSB, onle one of the TLB instructions needs to be repeated to work around this erratum. While the erratum only applies to cases in which the TLBI specifies the inner-shareable domain (*IS form of TLBI) and the DSB is ISH form or stronger (OSH, SYS), this changes applies the workaround overabundantly-- to local TLBI, DSB NSH sequences as well--for simplicity. Based on work by Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Christopher Covington <cov@codeaurora.org> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> 
During a TLB invalidate sequence targeting the inner shareable domain,
Falkor may prematurely complete the DSB before all loads and stores using
the old translation are observed. Instruction fetches are not subject to
the conditions of this erratum. If the original code sequence includes
multiple TLB invalidate instructions followed by a single DSB, onle one of
the TLB instructions needs to be repeated to work around this erratum.
While the erratum only applies to cases in which the TLBI specifies the
inner-shareable domain (*IS form of TLBI) and the DSB is ISH form or
stronger (OSH, SYS), this changes applies the workaround overabundantly--
to local TLBI, DSB NSH sequences as well--for simplicity.

Based on work by Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@codeaurora.org>

Signed-off-by: Christopher Covington <cov@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
arm64: Documentation - Expose CPU feature registers 2017-01-12T12:31:31+00:00 Suzuki K Poulose suzuki.poulose@arm.com 2017-01-09T17:28:32+00:00 4aa8a472c33f4024381ade56bef008a9c566366a Documentation for the infrastructure to expose CPU feature register by emulating MRS. Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Dave Martin <dave.martin@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> 
Documentation for the infrastructure to expose CPU feature
register by emulating MRS.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Martin <dave.martin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux 2016-10-03T15:58:35+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2016-10-03T15:58:35+00:00 7af8a0f8088831428051976cb06cc1e450f8bab5 Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon: "It's a bit all over the place this time with no "killer feature" to speak of. Support for mismatched cache line sizes should help people seeing whacky JIT failures on some SoCs, and the big.LITTLE perf updates have been a long time coming, but a lot of the changes here are cleanups. We stray outside arch/arm64 in a few areas: the arch/arm/ arch_timer workaround is acked by Russell, the DT/OF bits are acked by Rob, the arch_timer clocksource changes acked by Marc, CPU hotplug by tglx and jump_label by Peter (all CC'd). Summary: - Support for execute-only page permissions - Support for hibernate and DEBUG_PAGEALLOC - Support for heterogeneous systems with mismatches cache line sizes - Errata workarounds (A53 843419 update and QorIQ A-008585 timer bug) - arm64 PMU perf updates, including cpumasks for heterogeneous systems - Set UTS_MACHINE for building rpm packages - Yet another head.S tidy-up - Some cleanups and refactoring, particularly in the NUMA code - Lots of random, non-critical fixes across the board" * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (100 commits) arm64: tlbflush.h: add __tlbi() macro arm64: Kconfig: remove SMP dependence for NUMA arm64: Kconfig: select OF/ACPI_NUMA under NUMA config arm64: fix dump_backtrace/unwind_frame with NULL tsk arm/arm64: arch_timer: Use archdata to indicate vdso suitability arm64: arch_timer: Work around QorIQ Erratum A-008585 arm64: arch_timer: Add device tree binding for A-008585 erratum arm64: Correctly bounds check virt_addr_valid arm64: migrate exception table users off module.h and onto extable.h arm64: pmu: Hoist pmu platform device name arm64: pmu: Probe default hw/cache counters arm64: pmu: add fallback probe table MAINTAINERS: Update ARM PMU PROFILING AND DEBUGGING entry arm64: Improve kprobes test for atomic sequence arm64/kvm: use alternative auto-nop arm64: use alternative auto-nop arm64: alternative: add auto-nop infrastructure arm64: lse: convert lse alternatives NOP padding to use __nops arm64: barriers: introduce nops and __nops macros for NOP sequences arm64: sysreg: replace open-coded mrs_s/msr_s with {read,write}_sysreg_s ... 
Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "It's a bit all over the place this time with no "killer feature" to
  speak of.  Support for mismatched cache line sizes should help people
  seeing whacky JIT failures on some SoCs, and the big.LITTLE perf
  updates have been a long time coming, but a lot of the changes here
  are cleanups.

  We stray outside arch/arm64 in a few areas: the arch/arm/ arch_timer
  workaround is acked by Russell, the DT/OF bits are acked by Rob, the
  arch_timer clocksource changes acked by Marc, CPU hotplug by tglx and
  jump_label by Peter (all CC'd).

  Summary:

   - Support for execute-only page permissions
   - Support for hibernate and DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
   - Support for heterogeneous systems with mismatches cache line sizes
   - Errata workarounds (A53 843419 update and QorIQ A-008585 timer bug)
   - arm64 PMU perf updates, including cpumasks for heterogeneous systems
   - Set UTS_MACHINE for building rpm packages
   - Yet another head.S tidy-up
   - Some cleanups and refactoring, particularly in the NUMA code
   - Lots of random, non-critical fixes across the board"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (100 commits)
  arm64: tlbflush.h: add __tlbi() macro
  arm64: Kconfig: remove SMP dependence for NUMA
  arm64: Kconfig: select OF/ACPI_NUMA under NUMA config
  arm64: fix dump_backtrace/unwind_frame with NULL tsk
  arm/arm64: arch_timer: Use archdata to indicate vdso suitability
  arm64: arch_timer: Work around QorIQ Erratum A-008585
  arm64: arch_timer: Add device tree binding for A-008585 erratum
  arm64: Correctly bounds check virt_addr_valid
  arm64: migrate exception table users off module.h and onto extable.h
  arm64: pmu: Hoist pmu platform device name
  arm64: pmu: Probe default hw/cache counters
  arm64: pmu: add fallback probe table
  MAINTAINERS: Update ARM PMU PROFILING AND DEBUGGING entry
  arm64: Improve kprobes test for atomic sequence
  arm64/kvm: use alternative auto-nop
  arm64: use alternative auto-nop
  arm64: alternative: add auto-nop infrastructure
  arm64: lse: convert lse alternatives NOP padding to use __nops
  arm64: barriers: introduce nops and __nops macros for NOP sequences
  arm64: sysreg: replace open-coded mrs_s/msr_s with {read,write}_sysreg_s
  ...
arm64: arch_timer: Work around QorIQ Erratum A-008585 2016-09-23T16:19:25+00:00 Scott Wood oss@buserror.net 2016-09-22T08:35:17+00:00 f6dc1576cd517440313c9551b6ffa3d7e389c7c7 Erratum A-008585 says that the ARM generic timer counter "has the potential to contain an erroneous value for a small number of core clock cycles every time the timer value changes". Accesses to TVAL (both read and write) are also affected due to the implicit counter read. Accesses to CVAL are not affected. The workaround is to reread TVAL and count registers until successive reads return the same value. Writes to TVAL are replaced with an equivalent write to CVAL. The workaround is to reread TVAL and count registers until successive reads return the same value, and when writing TVAL to retry until counter reads before and after the write return the same value. The workaround is enabled if the fsl,erratum-a008585 property is found in the timer node in the device tree. This can be overridden with the clocksource.arm_arch_timer.fsl-a008585 boot parameter, which allows KVM users to enable the workaround until a mechanism is implemented to automatically communicate this information. This erratum can be found on LS1043A and LS2080A. Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net> [will: renamed read macro to reflect that it's not usually unstable] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> 
Erratum A-008585 says that the ARM generic timer counter "has the
potential to contain an erroneous value for a small number of core
clock cycles every time the timer value changes".  Accesses to TVAL
(both read and write) are also affected due to the implicit counter
read.  Accesses to CVAL are not affected.

The workaround is to reread TVAL and count registers until successive
reads return the same value.  Writes to TVAL are replaced with an
equivalent write to CVAL.

The workaround is to reread TVAL and count registers until successive reads
return the same value, and when writing TVAL to retry until counter
reads before and after the write return the same value.

The workaround is enabled if the fsl,erratum-a008585 property is found in
the timer node in the device tree.  This can be overridden with the
clocksource.arm_arch_timer.fsl-a008585 boot parameter, which allows KVM
users to enable the workaround until a mechanism is implemented to
automatically communicate this information.

This erratum can be found on LS1043A and LS2080A.

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>
[will: renamed read macro to reflect that it's not usually unstable]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
arm64: Document workaround for Cortex-A72 erratum #853709 2016-08-17T10:23:47+00:00 Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com 2016-08-16T14:03:01+00:00 674e70127069f3fd3c58fb0f94c60eb0f6567d78 We already have a workaround for Cortex-A57 erratum #852523, but Cortex-A72 r0p0 to r0p2 do suffer from the same issue (known as erratum #853709). Let's document the fact that we already handle this. Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> 
We already have a workaround for Cortex-A57 erratum #852523,
but Cortex-A72 r0p0 to r0p2 do suffer from the same issue
(known as erratum #853709).

Let's document the fact that we already handle this.

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
ARM64: ACPI: Update documentation for latest specification version 2016-06-21T15:26:09+00:00 Al Stone al.stone@linaro.org 2016-06-13T21:41:55+00:00 83ce0efc12811c1b11f71a8164949ff4f6117054 The ACPI 6.1 specification was recently released at the end of January 2016, but the arm64 kernel documentation for the use of ACPI was written for the 5.1 version of the spec. There were significant additions to the spec that had not yet been mentioned -- for example, the 6.0 mechanisms added to make it easier to define processors and low power idle states, as well as the 6.1 addition allowing regular interrupts (not just from GPIO) be used to signal ACPI general purpose events. This patch reflects going back through and examining the specs in detail and updating content appropriately. Whilst there, a few odds and ends of typos were caught as well. This brings the documentation up to date with ACPI 6.1 for arm64. Signed-off-by: Al Stone <al.stone@linaro.org> Acked-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@hpe.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> 
The ACPI 6.1 specification was recently released at the end of January
2016, but the arm64 kernel documentation for the use of ACPI was written
for the 5.1 version of the spec.  There were significant additions to the
spec that had not yet been mentioned -- for example, the 6.0 mechanisms
added to make it easier to define processors and low power idle states,
as well as the 6.1 addition allowing regular interrupts (not just from
GPIO) be used to signal ACPI general purpose events.

This patch reflects going back through and examining the specs in detail
and updating content appropriately.  Whilst there, a few odds and ends of
typos were caught as well.  This brings the documentation up to date with
ACPI 6.1 for arm64.

Signed-off-by: Al Stone <al.stone@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
irqchip/gicv3-its: numa: Enable workaround for Cavium thunderx erratum 23144 2016-06-02T17:01:07+00:00 Ganapatrao Kulkarni gkulkarni@caviumnetworks.com 2016-05-25T13:29:20+00:00 fbf8f40e1658cb2f17452dbd3c708e329c5d27e0 The erratum fixes the hang of ITS SYNC command by avoiding inter node io and collections/cpu mapping on thunderx dual-socket platform. This fix is only applicable for Cavium's ThunderX dual-socket platform. Reviewed-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <gkulkarni@caviumnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> 
The erratum fixes the hang of ITS SYNC command by avoiding inter node
io and collections/cpu mapping on thunderx dual-socket platform.

This fix is only applicable for Cavium's ThunderX dual-socket platform.

Reviewed-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <gkulkarni@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>