[PATCH 1/6] cmd: exception: arm64: fix undefined, add faults

Andre Przywara andre.przywara at arm.com
Sun Jan 9 18:30:04 CET 2022


The arm64 version of the exception command was just defining the
undefined exception, but actually copied the AArch32 instruction.

Replace that with an encoding that is guaranteed to be and stay
undefined. Also add instructions to trigger unaligned access faults and
a breakpoint.
This brings ARM64 on par with ARM(32) for the exception command.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
---
 cmd/arm/exception64.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cmd/arm/exception64.c b/cmd/arm/exception64.c
index d5de50a0803..1a9730e6aec 100644
--- a/cmd/arm/exception64.c
+++ b/cmd/arm/exception64.c
@@ -12,14 +12,46 @@ static int do_undefined(struct cmd_tbl *cmdtp, int flag, int argc,
 			char *const argv[])
 {
 	/*
-	 * 0xe7f...f.	is undefined in ARM mode
-	 * 0xde..	is undefined in Thumb mode
+	 * Instructions starting with the upper 16 bits all 0 are permanently
+	 * undefined. The lower 16 bits can be used for some kind of immediate.
+	 * --- ARMv8 ARM (ARM DDI 0487G.a C6.2.339: "UDF")
 	 */
-	asm volatile (".word 0xe7f7defb\n");
+	asm volatile (".word 0x00001234\n");
+
+	return CMD_RET_FAILURE;
+}
+
+static int do_unaligned(struct cmd_tbl *cmdtp, int flag, int argc,
+			char *const argv[])
+{
+	/*
+	 * The load acquire instruction requires the data source to be
+	 * naturally aligned, and will fault even if strict alignment fault
+	 * checking is disabled.
+	 * --- ARMv8 ARM (ARM DDI 0487G.a B2.5.2: "Alignment of data accesses")
+	 */
+	asm volatile (
+		"mov	x1, sp\n\t"
+		"orr	x1, x1, #3\n\t"
+		"ldar	x0, [x1]\n"
+		::: "x0", "x1" );
+
+	return CMD_RET_FAILURE;
+}
+
+static int do_breakpoint(struct cmd_tbl *cmdtp, int flag, int argc,
+			 char *const argv[])
+{
+	asm volatile ("brk	#123\n");
+
 	return CMD_RET_FAILURE;
 }
 
 static struct cmd_tbl cmd_sub[] = {
+	U_BOOT_CMD_MKENT(breakpoint, CONFIG_SYS_MAXARGS, 1, do_breakpoint,
+			 "", ""),
+	U_BOOT_CMD_MKENT(unaligned, CONFIG_SYS_MAXARGS, 1, do_unaligned,
+			 "", ""),
 	U_BOOT_CMD_MKENT(undefined, CONFIG_SYS_MAXARGS, 1, do_undefined,
 			 "", ""),
 };
@@ -27,7 +59,9 @@ static struct cmd_tbl cmd_sub[] = {
 static char exception_help_text[] =
 	"<ex>\n"
 	"  The following exceptions are available:\n"
-	"  undefined  - undefined instruction\n"
+	"  breakpoint - breakpoint instruction exception\n"
+	"  unaligned  - unaligned LDAR data abort\n"
+	"  undefined  - undefined instruction exception\n"
 	;
 
 #include <exception.h>
-- 
2.17.6



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