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<title>arm64: sanity checks: add missing AArch32 registers</title>
<updated>2015-01-07T11:40:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
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<published>2015-01-07T10:31:56+00:00</published>
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We don't currently check a number of registers exposed to AArch32 guests
(MVFR{0,1,2}_EL1 and ID_DFR0_EL1), despite the fact these describe
AArch32 feature support exposed to userspace and KVM guests similarly to
AArch64 registers which we do check. We do not expect these registers to
vary across a set of CPUs.

This patch adds said registers to the cpuinfo framework and sanity
checks. No sanity check failures have been observed on a current ARMv8
big.LITTLE platform (Juno).

Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Suzuki K. Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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We don't currently check a number of registers exposed to AArch32 guests
(MVFR{0,1,2}_EL1 and ID_DFR0_EL1), despite the fact these describe
AArch32 feature support exposed to userspace and KVM guests similarly to
AArch64 registers which we do check. We do not expect these registers to
vary across a set of CPUs.

This patch adds said registers to the cpuinfo framework and sanity
checks. No sanity check failures have been observed on a current ARMv8
big.LITTLE platform (Juno).

Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Suzuki K. Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: sanity checks: add ID_AA64DFR{0,1}_EL1</title>
<updated>2014-11-25T15:56:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-25T13:27:43+00:00</published>
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While we currently expect self-hosted debug support to be identical
across CPUs, we don't currently sanity check this.

This patch adds logging of the ID_AA64DFR{0,1}_EL1 values and associated
sanity checking code.

It's not clear to me whether we need to check PMUVer, TraceVer, and
DebugVer, as we don't currently rely on these fields at all.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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While we currently expect self-hosted debug support to be identical
across CPUs, we don't currently sanity check this.

This patch adds logging of the ID_AA64DFR{0,1}_EL1 values and associated
sanity checking code.

It's not clear to me whether we need to check PMUVer, TraceVer, and
DebugVer, as we don't currently rely on these fields at all.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: sanity checks: add missing newline to print</title>
<updated>2014-11-25T15:56:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-25T13:27:42+00:00</published>
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A missing newline in the WARN_TAINT_ONCE string results in ugly and
somewhat difficult to read output in the case of a sanity check failure,
as the next print does not appear on a new line:

  Unsupported CPU feature variation.Modules linked in:

This patch adds the missing newline, fixing the output formatting.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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A missing newline in the WARN_TAINT_ONCE string results in ugly and
somewhat difficult to read output in the case of a sanity check failure,
as the next print does not appear on a new line:

  Unsupported CPU feature variation.Modules linked in:

This patch adds the missing newline, fixing the output formatting.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: sanity checks: ignore ID_MMFR0.AuxReg</title>
<updated>2014-11-25T15:56:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-25T13:27:41+00:00</published>
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It seems that Cortex-A53 r0p4 added support for AIFSR and ADFSR, and
ID_MMFR0.AuxReg has been updated accordingly to report this fact. As
Cortex-A53 could be paired with CPUs which do not implement these
registers (e.g. all current revisions of Cortex-A57), this may trigger a
sanity check failure at boot.

The AuxReg value describes the availability of the ACTLR, AIFSR, and
ADFSR registers, which are only of use to 32-bit guest OSs, and have
IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED contents. Given the nature of these registers it
is likely that KVM will need to trap accesses regardless of whether the
CPUs are heterogeneous.

This patch masks out the ID_MMFR0.AuxReg value from the sanity checks,
preventing spurious warnings at boot time.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Maydell &lt;peter.maydell@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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It seems that Cortex-A53 r0p4 added support for AIFSR and ADFSR, and
ID_MMFR0.AuxReg has been updated accordingly to report this fact. As
Cortex-A53 could be paired with CPUs which do not implement these
registers (e.g. all current revisions of Cortex-A57), this may trigger a
sanity check failure at boot.

The AuxReg value describes the availability of the ACTLR, AIFSR, and
ADFSR registers, which are only of use to 32-bit guest OSs, and have
IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED contents. Given the nature of these registers it
is likely that KVM will need to trap accesses regardless of whether the
CPUs are heterogeneous.

This patch masks out the ID_MMFR0.AuxReg value from the sanity checks,
preventing spurious warnings at boot time.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Maydell &lt;peter.maydell@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: detect silicon revisions and set cap bits accordingly</title>
<updated>2014-11-25T13:46:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andre Przywara</name>
<email>andre.przywara@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-14T15:54:09+00:00</published>
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After each CPU has been started, we iterate through a list of
CPU features or bugs to detect CPUs which need (or could benefit
from) kernel code patches.
For each feature/bug there is a function which checks if that
particular CPU is affected. We will later provide some more generic
functions for common things like testing for certain MIDR ranges.
We do this for every CPU to cover big.LITTLE systems properly as
well.
If a certain feature/bug has been detected, the capability bit will
be set, so that later the call to apply_alternatives() will trigger
the actual code patching.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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After each CPU has been started, we iterate through a list of
CPU features or bugs to detect CPUs which need (or could benefit
from) kernel code patches.
For each feature/bug there is a function which checks if that
particular CPU is affected. We will later provide some more generic
functions for common things like testing for certain MIDR ranges.
We do this for every CPU to cover big.LITTLE systems properly as
well.
If a certain feature/bug has been detected, the capability bit will
be set, so that later the call to apply_alternatives() will trigger
the actual code patching.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: don't flag non-aliasing VIPT I-caches as aliasing</title>
<updated>2014-09-08T13:39:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-08T11:51:40+00:00</published>
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VIPT caches are non-aliasing if the index is derived from address bits that
are always equal between VA and PA. Classifying these as aliasing results in
unnecessary flushing which may hurt performance.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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VIPT caches are non-aliasing if the index is derived from address bits that
are always equal between VA and PA. Classifying these as aliasing results in
unnecessary flushing which may hurt performance.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: add helper functions to read I-cache attributes</title>
<updated>2014-09-08T13:39:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-08T11:51:39+00:00</published>
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This adds helper functions and #defines to &lt;asm/cachetype.h&gt; to read the
line size and the number of sets from the level 1 instruction cache.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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This adds helper functions and #defines to &lt;asm/cachetype.h&gt; to read the
line size and the number of sets from the level 1 instruction cache.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: fix typo in I-cache policy detection</title>
<updated>2014-08-18T18:47:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-05T09:25:55+00:00</published>
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This removes an unfortunately placed semi-colon resulting in all instruction
caches being classified as AIVIVT.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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This removes an unfortunately placed semi-colon resulting in all instruction
caches being classified as AIVIVT.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: add newline to I-cache policy string</title>
<updated>2014-08-01T13:00:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-01T09:23:20+00:00</published>
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Due to a missing newline in the I-cache policy detection log output,
it's possible to get some ratehr unfortunate output at boot time:

CPU1: Booted secondary processor
Detected VIPT I-cache on CPU1CPU2: Booted secondary processor
Detected VIPT I-cache on CPU2CPU3: Booted secondary processor
Detected VIPT I-cache on CPU3CPU4: Booted secondary processor
Detected PIPT I-cache on CPU4CPU5: Booted secondary processor
Detected PIPT I-cache on CPU5Brought up 6 CPUs
SMP: Total of 6 processors activated.

This patch adds the missing newline to the format string, cleaning up
the output.

Fixes: 59ccc0d41b7a ("arm64: cachetype: report weakest cache policy")
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Due to a missing newline in the I-cache policy detection log output,
it's possible to get some ratehr unfortunate output at boot time:

CPU1: Booted secondary processor
Detected VIPT I-cache on CPU1CPU2: Booted secondary processor
Detected VIPT I-cache on CPU2CPU3: Booted secondary processor
Detected VIPT I-cache on CPU3CPU4: Booted secondary processor
Detected PIPT I-cache on CPU4CPU5: Booted secondary processor
Detected PIPT I-cache on CPU5Brought up 6 CPUs
SMP: Total of 6 processors activated.

This patch adds the missing newline to the format string, cleaning up
the output.

Fixes: 59ccc0d41b7a ("arm64: cachetype: report weakest cache policy")
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: add runtime system sanity checks</title>
<updated>2014-07-18T14:24:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-16T15:32:46+00:00</published>
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Unexpected variation in certain system register values across CPUs is an
indicator of potential problems with a system. The kernel expects CPUs
to be mostly identical in terms of supported features, even in systems
with heterogeneous CPUs, with uniform instruction set support being
critical for the correct operation of userspace.

To help detect issues early where hardware violates the expectations of
the kernel, this patch adds simple runtime sanity checks on important ID
registers in the bring up path of each CPU.

Where CPUs are fundamentally mismatched, set TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC.
Given that the kernel assumes CPUs are identical feature wise, let's not
pretend that we expect such configurations to work. Supporting such
configurations would require massive rework, and hopefully they will
never exist.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Unexpected variation in certain system register values across CPUs is an
indicator of potential problems with a system. The kernel expects CPUs
to be mostly identical in terms of supported features, even in systems
with heterogeneous CPUs, with uniform instruction set support being
critical for the correct operation of userspace.

To help detect issues early where hardware violates the expectations of
the kernel, this patch adds simple runtime sanity checks on important ID
registers in the bring up path of each CPU.

Where CPUs are fundamentally mismatched, set TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC.
Given that the kernel assumes CPUs are identical feature wise, let's not
pretend that we expect such configurations to work. Supporting such
configurations would require massive rework, and hopefully they will
never exist.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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