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    • Maxime Ripard's avatar
      ARM: sunxi: dt: Convert to the new SID compatibles · 01ab1167
      Maxime Ripard authored 
      

Switch the device tree to the new compatibles introduced in the SID drivers
to have a common pattern accross all Allwinner SoCs.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMaxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      01ab1167
    • Mark Rutland's avatar
      arm64: defconfig: Expand default enabled features · 55834a77
      Mark Rutland authored 
      

FPGA implementations of the Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A53 are now available
in the form of the SMM-A57 and SMM-A53 Soft Macrocell Models (SMMs) for
Versatile Express. As these attach to a Motherboard Express V2M-P1 it
would be useful to have support for some V2M-P1 peripherals enabled by
default.

Additionally a couple of of features have been introduced since the last
defconfig update (CMA, jump labels) that would be good to have enabled
by default to ensure they are build and boot tested.

This patch updates the arm64 defconfig to enable support for these
devices and features. The arm64 Kconfig is modified to select
HAVE_PATA_PLATFORM, which is required to enable support for the
CompactFlash controller on the V2M-P1.

A few options which don't need to appear in defconfig are trimmed:

* BLK_DEV - selected by default
* EXPERIMENTAL - otherwise gone from the kernel
* MII - selected by drivers which require it
* USB_SUPPORT - selected by default

Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
      55834a77
    • Will Deacon's avatar
      arm64: asm: remove redundant "cc" clobbers · 95c41896
      Will Deacon authored 
      

cbnz/tbnz don't update the condition flags, so remove the "cc" clobbers
from inline asm blocks that only use these instructions to implement
conditional branches.

Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
      95c41896
    • Will Deacon's avatar
      arm64: atomics: fix use of acquire + release for full barrier semantics · 8e86f0b4
      Will Deacon authored 
      

Linux requires a number of atomic operations to provide full barrier
semantics, that is no memory accesses after the operation can be
observed before any accesses up to and including the operation in
program order.

On arm64, these operations have been incorrectly implemented as follows:

	// A, B, C are independent memory locations

	<Access [A]>

	// atomic_op (B)
1:	ldaxr	x0, [B]		// Exclusive load with acquire
	<op(B)>
	stlxr	w1, x0, [B]	// Exclusive store with release
	cbnz	w1, 1b

	<Access [C]>

The assumption here being that two half barriers are equivalent to a
full barrier, so the only permitted ordering would be A -> B -> C
(where B is the atomic operation involving both a load and a store).

Unfortunately, this is not the case by the letter of the architecture
and, in fact, the accesses to A and C are permitted to pass their
nearest half barrier resulting in orderings such as Bl -> A -> C -> Bs
or Bl -> C -> A -> Bs (where Bl is the load-acquire on B and Bs is the
store-release on B). This is a clear violation of the full barrier
requirement.

The simple way to fix this is to implement the same algorithm as ARMv7
using explicit barriers:

	<Access [A]>

	// atomic_op (B)
	dmb	ish		// Full barrier
1:	ldxr	x0, [B]		// Exclusive load
	<op(B)>
	stxr	w1, x0, [B]	// Exclusive store
	cbnz	w1, 1b
	dmb	ish		// Full barrier

	<Access [C]>

but this has the undesirable effect of introducing *two* full barrier
instructions. A better approach is actually the following, non-intuitive
sequence:

	<Access [A]>

	// atomic_op (B)
1:	ldxr	x0, [B]		// Exclusive load
	<op(B)>
	stlxr	w1, x0, [B]	// Exclusive store with release
	cbnz	w1, 1b
	dmb	ish		// Full barrier

	<Access [C]>

The simple observations here are:

  - The dmb ensures that no subsequent accesses (e.g. the access to C)
    can enter or pass the atomic sequence.

  - The dmb also ensures that no prior accesses (e.g. the access to A)
    can pass the atomic sequence.

  - Therefore, no prior access can pass a subsequent access, or
    vice-versa (i.e. A is strictly ordered before C).

  - The stlxr ensures that no prior access can pass the store component
    of the atomic operation.

The only tricky part remaining is the ordering between the ldxr and the
access to A, since the absence of the first dmb means that we're now
permitting re-ordering between the ldxr and any prior accesses.

From an (arbitrary) observer's point of view, there are two scenarios:

  1. We have observed the ldxr. This means that if we perform a store to
     [B], the ldxr will still return older data. If we can observe the
     ldxr, then we can potentially observe the permitted re-ordering
     with the access to A, which is clearly an issue when compared to
     the dmb variant of the code. Thankfully, the exclusive monitor will
     save us here since it will be cleared as a result of the store and
     the ldxr will retry. Notice that any use of a later memory
     observation to imply observation of the ldxr will also imply
     observation of the access to A, since the stlxr/dmb ensure strict
     ordering.

  2. We have not observed the ldxr. This means we can perform a store
     and influence the later ldxr. However, that doesn't actually tell
     us anything about the access to [A], so we've not lost anything
     here either when compared to the dmb variant.

This patch implements this solution for our barriered atomic operations,
ensuring that we satisfy the full barrier requirements where they are
needed.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
      8e86f0b4