Re: [RFC PATCH v2] arm64: cpufeatures: add support for tlbi range instructions

Hanjun Guo
2019-11-19T01:13:56Z

+Cc linux-arm-kernel mailing list and Shaokun.

Hi Marc,

On 2019/11/11 22:04, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 2019-11-11 14:56, Zhenyu Ye wrote:
>> On 2019/11/11 21:27, Will Deacon wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 09:23:55PM +0800, Zhenyu Ye wrote:
[...]
>>>
>>> How does this address my concerns here:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20191031131649.GB27196@willie-the-truck/
>>>
>>> ?
>>>
>>> Will
>>
>> I think your concern is more about the hardware level, and we can do
>> nothing about
>> this at all. The interconnect/DVM implementation is not exposed to
>> software layer
>> (and no need), and may should be constrained at hardware level.
>
> You're missing the point here: the instruction may be implemented
> and perfectly working at the CPU level, and yet not carried over
> the interconnect. In this situation, other CPUs may not observe
> the DVM messages instructing them of such invalidation, and you'll end
> up with memory corruption.
>
> So, in the absence of an architectural guarantee that range invalidation
> is supported and observed by all the DVM agents in the system, there must
> be a firmware description for it on which the kernel can rely.

I'm thinking of how to add a firmware description for it, how about this:

Adding a system level flag to indicate the supporting of TIBi by range,
which means adding a binding name for example "tlbi-by-range" at system
level in the dts file, or a tlbi by range flag in ACPI FADT table, then
we use the ID register per-cpu and the system level flag as

if (cpus_have_const_cap(ARM64_HAS_TLBI_BY_RANGE) && system_level_tlbi_by_range)
flush_tlb_by_range()
else
flush_tlb_range()

And this seems work for heterogeneous system (olny parts of the CPU support
TLBi by range) as well, correct me if anything wrong.

Thanks
Hanjun