[PATCH 5.10 79/79] arm64: errata: add detection for AMEVCNTR01 incrementing incorrectly

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-09-13T14:50:01Z

From: Ionela Voinescu <ionela.voinescu@arm.com>

commit e89d120c4b720e232cc6a94f0fcbd59c15d41489 upstream.

The AMU counter AMEVCNTR01 (constant counter) should increment at the same
rate as the system counter. On affected Cortex-A510 cores, AMEVCNTR01
increments incorrectly giving a significantly higher output value. This
results in inaccurate task scheduler utilization tracking and incorrect
feedback on CPU frequency.

Work around this problem by returning 0 when reading the affected counter
in key locations that results in disabling all users of this counter from
using it either for frequency invariance or as FFH reference counter. This
effect is the same to firmware disabling affected counters.

Details on how the two features are affected by this erratum:

- AMU counters will not be used for frequency invariance for affected
CPUs and CPUs in the same cpufreq policy. AMUs can still be used for
frequency invariance for unaffected CPUs in the system. Although
unlikely, if no alternative method can be found to support frequency
invariance for affected CPUs (cpufreq based or solution based on
platform counters) frequency invariance will be disabled. Please check
the chapter on frequency invariance at
Documentation/scheduler/sched-capacity.rst for details of its effect.

- Given that FFH can be used to fetch either the core or constant counter
values, restrictions are lifted regarding any of these counters
returning a valid (!0) value. Therefore FFH is considered supported
if there is a least one CPU that support AMUs, independent of any
counters being disabled or affected by this erratum. Clarifying
comments are now added to the cpc_ffh_supported(), cpu_read_constcnt()
and cpu_read_corecnt() functions.

The above is achieved through adding a new erratum: ARM64_ERRATUM_2457168.

Signed-off-by: Ionela Voinescu <ionela.voinescu@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220819103050.24211-1-ionela.voinescu@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.rst | 2 ++
arch/arm64/Kconfig | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h | 3 ++-
arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c | 9 +++++++++
arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 5 ++++-
5 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.rst
@@ -92,6 +92,8 @@ stable kernels.
+----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------------------+
| ARM | Cortex-A77 | #1508412 | ARM64_ERRATUM_1508412 |
+----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------------------+
+| ARM | Cortex-A510 | #2457168 | ARM64_ERRATUM_2457168 |
++----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------------------+
| ARM | Neoverse-N1 | #1188873,1418040| ARM64_ERRATUM_1418040 |
+----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------------------+
| ARM | Neoverse-N1 | #1349291 | N/A |
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -657,6 +657,24 @@ config ARM64_ERRATUM_1508412

If unsure, say Y.

+config ARM64_ERRATUM_2457168
+ bool "Cortex-A510: 2457168: workaround for AMEVCNTR01 incrementing incorrectly"
+ depends on ARM64_AMU_EXTN
+ default y
+ help
+ This option adds the workaround for ARM Cortex-A510 erratum 2457168.
+
+ The AMU counter AMEVCNTR01 (constant counter) should increment at the same rate
+ as the system counter. On affected Cortex-A510 cores AMEVCNTR01 increments
+ incorrectly giving a significantly higher output value.
+
+ Work around this problem by keeping the reference values of affected counters
+ to 0 thus signaling an error case. This effect is the same to firmware disabling
+ affected counters, in which case 0 will be returned when reading the disabled
+ counters.
+
+ If unsure, say Y.
+
config CAVIUM_ERRATUM_22375
bool "Cavium erratum 22375, 24313"
default y
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h
@@ -67,7 +67,8 @@
#define ARM64_MTE 57
#define ARM64_WORKAROUND_1508412 58
#define ARM64_SPECTRE_BHB 59
+#define ARM64_WORKAROUND_2457168 60

-#define ARM64_NCAPS 60
+#define ARM64_NCAPS 61

#endif /* __ASM_CPUCAPS_H */
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
@@ -546,6 +546,15 @@ const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities arm6
1, 0),
},
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_ERRATUM_2457168
+ {
+ .desc = "ARM erratum 2457168",
+ .capability = ARM64_WORKAROUND_2457168,
+ .type = ARM64_CPUCAP_WEAK_LOCAL_CPU_FEATURE,
+ /* Cortex-A510 r0p0-r1p1 */
+ CAP_MIDR_RANGE(MIDR_CORTEX_A510, 0, 0, 1, 1)
+ },
+#endif
{
}
};
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -1559,7 +1559,10 @@ static void cpu_amu_enable(struct arm64_
pr_info("detected CPU%d: Activity Monitors Unit (AMU)\n",
smp_processor_id());
cpumask_set_cpu(smp_processor_id(), &amu_cpus);
- init_cpu_freq_invariance_counters();
+
+ /* 0 reference values signal broken/disabled counters */
+ if (!this_cpu_has_cap(ARM64_WORKAROUND_2457168))
+ init_cpu_freq_invariance_counters();
}
}