Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] arm64: Work around Falkor erratum 1003

Mark Rutland
2017-01-31T12:39:17Z

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:52:30AM -0500, Christopher Covington wrote:
> The Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies Falkor v1 CPU may allocate TLB entries
> using an incorrect ASID when TTBRx_EL1 is being updated. When the erratum
> is triggered, page table entries using the new translation table base
> address (BADDR) will be allocated into the TLB using the old ASID. All
> circumstances leading to the incorrect ASID being cached in the TLB arise
> when software writes TTBRx_EL1[ASID] and TTBRx_EL1[BADDR], a memory
> operation is in the process of performing a translation using the specific
> TTBRx_EL1 being written, and the memory operation uses a translation table
> descriptor designated as non-global. EL2 and EL3 code changing the EL1&0
> ASID is not subject to this erratum because hardware is prohibited from
> performing translations from an out-of-context translation regime.
>
> Consider the following pseudo code.
>
> write new BADDR and ASID values to TTBRx_EL1
>
> Replacing the above sequence with the one below will ensure that no TLB
> entries with an incorrect ASID are used by software.
>
> write reserved value to TTBRx_EL1[ASID]
> ISB
> write new value to TTBRx_EL1[BADDR]
> ISB
> write new value to TTBRx_EL1[ASID]
> ISB
>
> When the above sequence is used, page table entries using the new BADDR
> value may still be incorrectly allocated into the TLB using the reserved
> ASID. Yet this will not reduce functionality, since TLB entries incorrectly
> tagged with the reserved ASID will never be hit by a later instruction.

Based on my understanding that entries allocated to the reserved ASID
will not be used for subsequent page table walks (and so we don't have
asynchronous behaviour to contend with), this sounds fine to me.

Thanks for taking the time to clarify the details on that.

> Based on work by Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@codeaurora.org>
>
> Signed-off-by: Christopher Covington <cov@codeaurora.org>
> ---
> Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt | 1 +
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 11 +++++++++++
> arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h | 3 ++-
> arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 8 +++++++-
> arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c | 7 +++++++
> arch/arm64/mm/context.c | 11 +++++++++++
> arch/arm64/mm/proc.S | 1 +
> 8 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Don't we need to use pre_ttbr0_update_workaround in <asm/asm-uaccess.h>
for CONFIG_ARM64_SW_TTBR0_PAN? We implicitly switch to the reserved ASID
for the empty table in __uaccess_ttbr0_disable.

That also means we have to invalidate the reserved ASID so as to not
accidentally hit while uaccess is disabled.

Thanks,
Mark.