[U-Boot] [PATCH V3 01/11] ARM: Introduce erratum workaround for 798870

Nishanth Menon nm at ti.com
Tue Mar 3 17:29:45 CET 2015


On 02/25/2015 02:55 PM, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> Add workaround for Cortex-A15 ARM erratum 798870 which says
> "If back-to-back speculative cache line fills (fill A and fill B) are
> issued from the L1 data cache of a CPU to the L2 cache, the second
> request (fill B) is then cancelled, and the second request would have
> detected a hazard against a recent write or eviction (write B) to the
> same cache line as fill B then the L2 logic might deadlock."
> 
> Implementations for SoC families such as Exynos, OMAP5/DRA7 etc
> will be widely different.
> 
> Every SoC has slightly different manner of setting up access to L2ACLR
> and similar registers since the Secure Monitor handling of Secure
> Monitor Call(smc) is diverse. Hence an weak function is introduced
> which may be overriden to implement SoC specific accessor implementation.
> 
> Based on ARM errata Document revision 18.0 (22 Nov 2013)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm at ti.com>
> ---
>  README                       |    5 +++++
>  arch/arm/cpu/armv7/Makefile  |    2 +-
>  arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cp15.c    |   23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S   |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/arm/include/asm/armv7.h |    3 +++
>  5 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cp15.c
> 
> diff --git a/README b/README
> index a28ff133ee05..11ec37ba4a00 100644
> --- a/README
> +++ b/README
> @@ -621,6 +621,11 @@ The following options need to be configured:
>  		exists, unlike the similar options in the Linux kernel. Do not
>  		set these options unless they apply!
>  
> +		NOTE: The following can be machine specific errata. These
> +		do have ability to provide rudimentary version and machine
> +		specific checks, but expect no product checks.
> +		CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_798870
> +
>  - Driver Model
>  		Driver model is a new framework for devices in U-Boot
>  		introduced in early 2014. U-Boot is being progressively
> diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/Makefile b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/Makefile
> index 409e6f5651b6..43da3e586f71 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/Makefile
> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ extra-y	:= start.o
>  
>  obj-y	+= cache_v7.o
>  
> -obj-y	+= cpu.o
> +obj-y	+= cpu.o cp15.o
>  obj-y	+= syslib.o
>  
>  ifneq ($(CONFIG_AM43XX)$(CONFIG_AM33XX)$(CONFIG_OMAP44XX)$(CONFIG_OMAP54XX)$(CONFIG_TEGRA)$(CONFIG_MX6)$(CONFIG_TI81XX)$(CONFIG_AT91FAMILY)$(CONFIG_SUNXI),)
> diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cp15.c b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cp15.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..8ac81c9ba147
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cp15.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
> +/*
> + * (C) Copyright 2015 Texas Insturments
> + *
> + * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
> + */
> +
> +/*
> + * CP15 specific code
> + */
> +
> +#include <common.h>
> +#include <command.h>
> +#include <asm/system.h>
> +#include <asm/cache.h>
> +#include <asm/armv7.h>
> +#include <linux/compiler.h>
> +
> +void __weak v7_arch_cp15_set_l2aux_ctrl(u32 l2actlr, u32 cpu_midr,
> +				     u32 cpu_rev_comb, u32 cpu_variant,
> +				     u32 cpu_rev)
> +{
> +	asm volatile ("mcr p15, 1, %0, c15, c0, 0\n\t" : : "r"(l2actlr));
> +}
> diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S
> index 70048c10aee6..ec46cec9cb1c 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S
> @@ -163,6 +163,26 @@ ENTRY(cpu_init_cp15)
>  	mcr	p15, 0, r0, c15, c0, 1	@ write diagnostic register
>  #endif
>  
> +	mrc p15, 0, r1, c0, c0, 0	@ r1 has Read Main ID Register (MIDR)
> +	mov r3, r1, lsr #20		@ get variant field
> +	and r3, r3, #0xf		@ r3 has CPU variant
> +	and r4, r1, #0xf                @ r4 has CPU revision
> +	mov r2, r3, lsl #4		@ shift variant field for combined value
> +	orr r2, r4, r2                  @ r2 has combined CPU variant + revision

I think I should move these to beyond r3 as r0-r3 could be corrupted
in c invocation OR SMC invocation...

> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_798870
> +	cmp	r2, #0x30		@ Applies to lower than R3p0
> +	bge	skip_errata_798870      @ skip if not affected rev
> +	cmp	r2, #0x20		@ Applies to including and above R2p0
> +	blt	skip_errata_798870      @ skip if not affected rev
> +
> +	mrc	p15, 1, r0, c15, c0, 0  @ read l2 aux ctrl reg
> +	orr	r0, r0, #1 << 7         @ Enable hazard-detect timeout
> +	b	v7_arch_cp15_set_l2aux_ctrl
> +	isb				@ Recommended ISB after l2actlr update
> +skip_errata_798870:
> +#endif


> +
>  	mov	pc, lr			@ back to my caller
>  ENDPROC(cpu_init_cp15)
>  
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/armv7.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/armv7.h
> index a13da23cf172..30e0cc3cf3d5 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/armv7.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/armv7.h
> @@ -93,6 +93,9 @@ extern char __secure_end[];
>  
>  #endif /* CONFIG_ARMV7_NONSEC || CONFIG_ARMV7_VIRT */
>  
> +void v7_arch_cp15_set_l2aux_ctrl(u32 l2auxctrl, u32 cpu_midr,
> +				 u32 cpu_rev_comb, u32 cpu_variant,
> +				 u32 cpu_rev);
>  #endif /* ! __ASSEMBLY__ */
>  
>  #endif
> 


-- 
Regards,
Nishanth Menon


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