| Date | Thu, 7 Oct 2021 17:10:18 +0100 | From | Catalin Marinas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 11/17] arm64: errata: Add workaround for TSB flush failures |
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On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 02:41:15PM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote: > Arm Neoverse-N2 (#2067961) and Cortex-A710 (#2054223) suffers > from errata, where a TSB (trace synchronization barrier) > fails to flush the trace data completely, when executed from > a trace prohibited region. In Linux we always execute it > after we have moved the PE to trace prohibited region. So, > we can apply the workaround everytime a TSB is executed. > > The work around is to issue two TSB consecutively. > > NOTE: This errata is defined as LOCAL_CPU_ERRATUM, implying > that a late CPU could be blocked from booting if it is the > first CPU that requires the workaround. This is because we > do not allow setting a cpu_hwcaps after the SMP boot. The > other alternative is to use "this_cpu_has_cap()" instead > of the faster system wide check, which may be a bit of an > overhead, given we may have to do this in nvhe KVM host > before a guest entry. > > Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> > Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> > Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> > Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org> > Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> > Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> > Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> > Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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