[PATCH] armv8: Fix TCR 64-bit writes

Andre Przywara andre.przywara at arm.com
Mon May 9 18:08:49 CEST 2022


The AArch64 TCR_ELx register is a 64-bit register, and many newer
architecture features use bits in the upper half. So far U-Boot was
igorant of those bits, trying to leave them alone.
However, in an effort to set bit 31 to 1, it failed doing so, because
the compiler sign-extended "1 << 31", so that all bits[63:31] got set.

Older ARMv8.0 cores don't define anything dangerous up there, but newer
architecture revisions do, and setting all those bits will end badly:
=================
$ qemu-system-aarch64 -cpu max ....
U-Boot 2022.07-rc1 (May 09 2022 - 15:21:00 +0100)

DRAM:  1.5 GiB
=================  (hangs here)

Defining TCR_ELx_RSVD to "1U << 31" avoids the sign-extension, so all
upper bits stay at a safe 0 value. This means no more surprises when
U-Boot runs on a more capable CPU core.

Reported-by: Balaji Anandapadmanaban <Balaji.Anandapadmanaban at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/armv8/mmu.h | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/armv8/mmu.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/armv8/mmu.h
index fc97c55114..c36b2cf5a5 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/armv8/mmu.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/armv8/mmu.h
@@ -99,9 +99,9 @@
 #define TCR_TG0_16K		(2 << 14)
 #define TCR_EPD1_DISABLE	(1 << 23)
 
-#define TCR_EL1_RSVD		(1 << 31)
-#define TCR_EL2_RSVD		(1 << 31 | 1 << 23)
-#define TCR_EL3_RSVD		(1 << 31 | 1 << 23)
+#define TCR_EL1_RSVD		(1U << 31)
+#define TCR_EL2_RSVD		(1U << 31 | 1 << 23)
+#define TCR_EL3_RSVD		(1U << 31 | 1 << 23)
 
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 static inline void set_ttbr_tcr_mair(int el, u64 table, u64 tcr, u64 attr)
-- 
2.25.1



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