Re: [PATCH] arm64: kernel: disable CNP on Carmel

[Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 05:31:51PM -0800, Rich Wiley wrote:
> On NVIDIA Carmel cores, CNP behaves differently than it does on standard
> ARM cores. On Carmel, if two cores have CNP enabled and share an L2 TLB
> entry created by core0 for a specific ASID, a non-shareable TLBI from
> core1 may still see the shared entry. On standard ARM cores, that TLBI
> will invalidate the shared entry as well.
> 
> This causes issues with patchsets that attempt to do local TLBIs based
> on cpumasks instead of broadcast TLBIs. Avoid these issues by disabling
> CNP support for NVIDIA Carmel cores.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rich Wiley <rwiley@nvidia.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 11 ++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> index 9fac745aa7bb..2aa38a430f6a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> @@ -986,6 +986,12 @@ static bool has_cache_dic(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry,
>  	return ctr & BIT(CTR_DIC_SHIFT);
>  }
>  
> +static bool cpu_has_broken_cnp(void)
> +{
> +	const struct midr_range range = MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS(MIDR_NVIDIA_CARMEL);
> +	return is_midr_in_range(read_cpuid_id(), &range);
> +}

Since this is a CPU erratum, can you please implement it as other errata
workarounds we have in the kernel? You'd need to provide an erratum
number for this CPU as well. You could make the .capability definition
of the erratum entry more generic like ARM64_WORKAROUND_BROKEN_CNP.

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin

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