From: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
To: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
Dmitry Baryshkov <lumag@kernel.org>,
Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@kernel.org>
Cc: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>,
Pierre Gondois <pierre.gondois@arm.com>,
Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>,
Radu Rendec <rrendec@redhat.com>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
Clark Williams <clrkwllms@kernel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-rt-devel@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] ARM: cacheinfo: guard the CLIDR read in populate_cache_leaves()
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2026 21:55:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260912195552.76673-4-kmehltretter@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260912195552.76673-1-kmehltretter@gmail.com>
ARM1176 and ARM11 MPCore can be reported as ARMv7 by
cpu_architecture() even though they lack CLIDR. populate_cache_leaves()
therefore needs the CTR-format check used by detect_cache_level().
DT-based early allocation bypasses init_cache_level(), so its check
no longer protects populate_cache_leaves(). A combined ARMv6/ARMv7
SMP kernel can reach this path on BCM2835, whose DT describes its
caches.
Share the CLIDR capability check between detection and population.
Return -ENOENT from population when CLIDR is unavailable, preserving
the existing absence of cacheinfo and avoiding a new topology warning.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
---
Reproduced on QEMU realview-eb-mpcore (ARM11 MPCore, reported as ARMv7
by cpu_architecture()) with a device tree carrying i-cache-size and
d-cache-size on the cpu nodes like bcm2835.dtsi: with patch 4 and
without this patch populate_cache_leaves() reads CLIDR, which QEMU
returns as zero, so every leaf becomes CACHE_TYPE_NOCACHE. Real ARM11
does not implement the register. With this patch the read is skipped,
the boot is silent and cacheinfo stays absent as before the series.
arch/arm/kernel/cacheinfo.c | 25 +++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/cacheinfo.c b/arch/arm/kernel/cacheinfo.c
index 31591c947254..993c8a134786 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/cacheinfo.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/cacheinfo.c
@@ -80,19 +80,21 @@ static void ci_leaf_init(struct cacheinfo *this_leaf,
this_leaf->type = type;
}
-static int detect_cache_level(unsigned int *level_p, unsigned int *leaves_p)
+static bool clidr_present(void)
{
- unsigned int ctype, level, leaves;
- u32 ctr, format;
-
/* CLIDR is not present before ARMv7/v7m */
if (cpu_architecture() < CPU_ARCH_ARMv7)
- return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ return false;
/* Don't try reading CLIDR if CTR declares old format */
- ctr = read_cpuid_cachetype();
- format = FIELD_GET(CTR_FORMAT_MASK, ctr);
- if (format != CTR_FORMAT_ARMV7)
+ return FIELD_GET(CTR_FORMAT_MASK, read_cpuid_cachetype()) == CTR_FORMAT_ARMV7;
+}
+
+static int detect_cache_level(unsigned int *level_p, unsigned int *leaves_p)
+{
+ unsigned int ctype, level, leaves;
+
+ if (!clidr_present())
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
for (level = 1, leaves = 0; level <= MAX_CACHE_LEVEL; level++) {
@@ -150,11 +152,10 @@ int populate_cache_leaves(unsigned int cpu)
enum cache_type type;
struct cpu_cacheinfo *this_cpu_ci = get_cpu_cacheinfo(cpu);
struct cacheinfo *infos = this_cpu_ci->info_list;
- unsigned int arch = cpu_architecture();
- /* CLIDR is not present before ARMv7/v7m */
- if (arch < CPU_ARCH_ARMv7)
- return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ /* The device tree can describe caches CLIDR cannot fill in. */
+ if (!clidr_present())
+ return -ENOENT;
for (idx = 0, level = 1; level <= this_cpu_ci->num_levels &&
idx < this_cpu_ci->num_leaves; level++) {
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-12 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-12 19:55 [PATCH 0/4] ARM: allocate the cacheinfo early to fix the PREEMPT_RT boot warning Karl Mehltretter
2026-09-12 19:55 ` [PATCH 1/4] ARM: cacheinfo: avoid out-of-bounds write in populate_cache_leaves() Karl Mehltretter
2026-09-12 19:55 ` [PATCH 2/4] ARM: cacheinfo: count external caches in early_cache_level() Karl Mehltretter
2026-09-12 19:55 ` Karl Mehltretter [this message]
2026-09-12 19:55 ` [PATCH 4/4] ARM: topology: allocate the cacheinfo early on the boot CPU Karl Mehltretter
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