From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932169AbbAPQdS (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2015 11:33:18 -0500 Received: from foss-mx-na.foss.arm.com ([217.140.108.86]:36331 "EHLO foss-mx-na.foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752342AbbAPQdR (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2015 11:33:17 -0500 Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 16:32:54 +0000 From: Mark Rutland To: Will Deacon Cc: Suzuki Poulose , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "leo.yan@linaro.org" , "yexl@marvell.com" , Catalin Marinas , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] arm64: Consolidate hotplug notifier for instruction emulation Message-ID: <20150116163254.GC32155@leverpostej> References: <1421325366-13263-1-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com> <1421325366-13263-3-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com> <20150116160730.GY7091@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150116160730.GY7091@arm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 04:07:30PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:36:05PM +0000, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote: > > From: "Suzuki K. Poulose" > > > > As of now each insn_emulation has a cpu hotplug notifier that > > enables/disables the CPU feature bit for the functionality. This > > patch re-arranges the code, such that there is only one notifier > > that runs through the list of registered emulation hooks and runs > > their corresponding set_hw_mode. > > > > We do nothing when a CPU is dying as we will set the appropriate bits > > as it comes back online based on the state of the hooks. > > > > Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose > > Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland > > --- > > Documentation/arm64/legacy_instructions.txt | 4 + > > arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 2 + > > arch/arm64/kernel/armv8_deprecated.c | 113 +++++++++++++++------------ > > 3 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/legacy_instructions.txt b/Documentation/arm64/legacy_instructions.txt > > index a3b3da2..0a4dc26 100644 > > --- a/Documentation/arm64/legacy_instructions.txt > > +++ b/Documentation/arm64/legacy_instructions.txt > > @@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ behaviours and the corresponding values of the sysctl nodes - > > instructions. Using hardware execution generally provides better > > performance, but at the loss of ability to gather runtime statistics > > about the use of the deprecated instructions. > > + Note: Emulation of a deprecated instruction depends on the availability > > + of the feature on all the active CPUs. In case of CPU hotplug, if a new > > + CPU doesn't support a feature, it could result in the abortion of the > > + hotplug operation. > > Is this true? We should be able to *emulate* the instruction anywhere, > it's the "hardware execution" setting that needs CPU support. Not quite. In ARMv8 there are three possible cases for endianness support: (a) Mixed endian support at all levels ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1.BigEnd == 0b0001 ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1.BigEnd0 == 0b0000 (RES0, invalid) (b) Mixed endian support at EL0 only ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1.BigEnd == 0b0000 ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1.BigEnd0 == 0b0001 SCTLR_EL1.EE has a fixed value (c) No mixed endian support at all ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1.BigEnd == 0b0000 ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1.BigEnd0 == 0b0000 SCTLR_EL1.{EE,E0E} have fixed values We can emulate setend in cases (a) and (b), but not (c) unless we trapped every single instruction that could access memory. I don't think that's feasible. Also fun in case (c) is that the kernel may not be able to run on all CPUs (consider a BE kernel where some CPUs are fixed to LE at EL1). I hope no-one builds a system where CPUs are mismatched w.r.t. endianness support. Thanks, Mark.