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Commit fa82d0b4 authored by Suzuki K Poulose's avatar Suzuki K Poulose Committed by Will Deacon
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arm64: errata: Add workaround for TSB flush failures



Arm Neoverse-N2 (#2067961) and Cortex-A710 (#2054223) suffers
from errata, where a TSB (trace synchronization barrier)
fails to flush the trace data completely, when executed from
a trace prohibited region. In Linux we always execute it
after we have moved the PE to trace prohibited region. So,
we can apply the workaround every time a TSB is executed.

The work around is to issue two TSB consecutively.

NOTE: This errata is defined as LOCAL_CPU_ERRATUM, implying
that a late CPU could be blocked from booting if it is the
first CPU that requires the workaround. This is because we
do not allow setting a cpu_hwcaps after the SMP boot. The
other alternative is to use "this_cpu_has_cap()" instead
of the faster system wide check, which may be a bit of an
overhead, given we may have to do this in nvhe KVM host
before a guest entry.

Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAnshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSuzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211019163153.3692640-4-suzuki.poulose@arm.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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