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<title>clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Avoid infinite recursion when ftrace is enabled</title>
<updated>2017-08-11T14:01:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ding Tianhong</name>
<email>dingtianhong@huawei.com</email>
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<published>2017-08-10T02:52:45+00:00</published>
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On platforms with an arch timer erratum workaround, it's possible for
arch_timer_reg_read_stable() to recurse into itself when certain
tracing options are enabled, leading to stack overflows and related
problems.

For example, when PREEMPT_TRACER and FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER are
selected, it's possible to trigger this with:

$ mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug/
$ echo function_graph &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer

The problem is that in such cases, preempt_disable() instrumentation
attempts to acquire a timestamp via trace_clock(), resulting in a call
back to arch_timer_reg_read_stable(), and hence recursion.

This patch changes arch_timer_reg_read_stable() to use
preempt_{disable,enable}_notrace(), which avoids this.

This problem is similar to the fixed by upstream commit 96b3d28bf4
("sched/clock: Prevent tracing recursion in sched_clock_cpu()").

Fixes: 6acc71ccac71 ("arm64: arch_timer: Allows a CPU-specific erratum to only affect a subset of CPUs")
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong &lt;dingtianhong@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
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On platforms with an arch timer erratum workaround, it's possible for
arch_timer_reg_read_stable() to recurse into itself when certain
tracing options are enabled, leading to stack overflows and related
problems.

For example, when PREEMPT_TRACER and FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER are
selected, it's possible to trigger this with:

$ mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug/
$ echo function_graph &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer

The problem is that in such cases, preempt_disable() instrumentation
attempts to acquire a timestamp via trace_clock(), resulting in a call
back to arch_timer_reg_read_stable(), and hence recursion.

This patch changes arch_timer_reg_read_stable() to use
preempt_{disable,enable}_notrace(), which avoids this.

This problem is similar to the fixed by upstream commit 96b3d28bf4
("sched/clock: Prevent tracing recursion in sched_clock_cpu()").

Fixes: 6acc71ccac71 ("arm64: arch_timer: Allows a CPU-specific erratum to only affect a subset of CPUs")
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong &lt;dingtianhong@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
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<title>arm64: arch_timer: Allow erratum matching with ACPI OEM information</title>
<updated>2017-04-07T10:22:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>marc.zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-21T14:37:30+00:00</published>
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Just as we're able to identify a broken platform using some DT
information, let's enable a way to spot the offenders with ACPI.

The difference is that we can only match on some OEM info instead
of implementation-specific properties. So in order to avoid the
insane multiplication of errata structures, we allow an array
of OEM descriptions to be attached to an erratum structure.

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: dann frazier &lt;dann.frazier@canonical.com&gt;
Tested-by: Hanjun Guo &lt;hanjun.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo &lt;hanjun.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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Just as we're able to identify a broken platform using some DT
information, let's enable a way to spot the offenders with ACPI.

The difference is that we can only match on some OEM info instead
of implementation-specific properties. So in order to avoid the
insane multiplication of errata structures, we allow an array
of OEM descriptions to be attached to an erratum structure.

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: dann frazier &lt;dann.frazier@canonical.com&gt;
Tested-by: Hanjun Guo &lt;hanjun.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo &lt;hanjun.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: arch_timer: Allows a CPU-specific erratum to only affect a subset of CPUs</title>
<updated>2017-04-07T10:22:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>marc.zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-20T18:34:48+00:00</published>
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Instead of applying a CPU-specific workaround to all CPUs in the system,
allow it to only affect a subset of them (typical big-little case).

This is done by turning the erratum pointer into a per-CPU variable.

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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Instead of applying a CPU-specific workaround to all CPUs in the system,
allow it to only affect a subset of them (typical big-little case).

This is done by turning the erratum pointer into a per-CPU variable.

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: arch_timer: Make workaround methods optional</title>
<updated>2017-04-07T10:22:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>marc.zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-27T10:34:13+00:00</published>
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Not all errata need to workaround all access types. Allow them to
be optional.

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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Not all errata need to workaround all access types. Allow them to
be optional.

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: arch_timer: Rework the set_next_event workarounds</title>
<updated>2017-04-07T10:22:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>marc.zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-27T10:27:09+00:00</published>
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The way we work around errata affecting set_next_event is not very
nice, at it imposes this workaround on errata that do not need it.

Add new workaround hooks and let the existing workarounds use them.

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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The way we work around errata affecting set_next_event is not very
nice, at it imposes this workaround on errata that do not need it.

Add new workaround hooks and let the existing workarounds use them.

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: arch_timer: Add erratum handler for CPU-specific capability</title>
<updated>2017-04-07T10:22:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>marc.zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-20T16:47:59+00:00</published>
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Should we ever have a workaround for an erratum that is detected using
a capability and affecting a particular CPU, it'd be nice to have
a way to probe them directly.

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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Should we ever have a workaround for an erratum that is detected using
a capability and affecting a particular CPU, it'd be nice to have
a way to probe them directly.

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: arch_timer: Add infrastructure for multiple erratum detection methods</title>
<updated>2017-04-07T10:22:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>marc.zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-19T17:20:59+00:00</published>
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We're currently stuck with DT when it comes to handling errata, which
is pretty restrictive. In order to make things more flexible, let's
introduce an infrastructure that could support alternative discovery
methods. No change in functionality.

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo &lt;hanjun.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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We're currently stuck with DT when it comes to handling errata, which
is pretty restrictive. In order to make things more flexible, let's
introduce an infrastructure that could support alternative discovery
methods. No change in functionality.

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo &lt;hanjun.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Introduce generic errata handling infrastructure</title>
<updated>2017-02-07T23:14:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ding Tianhong</name>
<email>dingtianhong@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-06T16:47:41+00:00</published>
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Currently we have code inline in the arch timer probe path to cater for
Freescale erratum A-008585, complete with ifdeffery. This is a little
ugly, and will get worse as we try to add more errata handling.

This patch refactors the handling of Freescale erratum A-008585. Now the
erratum is described in a generic arch_timer_erratum_workaround
structure, and the probe path can iterate over these to detect errata
and enable workarounds.

This will simplify the addition and maintenance of code handling
Hisilicon erratum 161010101.

Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong &lt;dingtianhong@huawei.com&gt;
[Mark: split patch, correct Kconfig, reword commit message]
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
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Currently we have code inline in the arch timer probe path to cater for
Freescale erratum A-008585, complete with ifdeffery. This is a little
ugly, and will get worse as we try to add more errata handling.

This patch refactors the handling of Freescale erratum A-008585. Now the
erratum is described in a generic arch_timer_erratum_workaround
structure, and the probe path can iterate over these to detect errata
and enable workarounds.

This will simplify the addition and maintenance of code handling
Hisilicon erratum 161010101.

Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong &lt;dingtianhong@huawei.com&gt;
[Mark: split patch, correct Kconfig, reword commit message]
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: arch_timer: Work around QorIQ Erratum A-008585</title>
<updated>2016-09-23T16:19:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Scott Wood</name>
<email>oss@buserror.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-22T08:35:17+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;oss@buserror.net&gt;
[will: renamed read macro to reflect that it's not usually unstable]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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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 &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;oss@buserror.net&gt;
[will: renamed read macro to reflect that it's not usually unstable]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: arch_timer: simplify accessors</title>
<updated>2016-09-09T10:41:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-08T12:55:35+00:00</published>
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A while back we added {read,write}_sysreg accessors to handle accesses
to system registers, without the usual boilerplate asm volatile,
temporary variable, etc.

This patch makes use of these in the arm64 arch timer accessors to make
the code shorter and clearer.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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A while back we added {read,write}_sysreg accessors to handle accesses
to system registers, without the usual boilerplate asm volatile,
temporary variable, etc.

This patch makes use of these in the arm64 arch timer accessors to make
the code shorter and clearer.

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