On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:52:32AM -0500, Christopher Covington wrote: > During a TLB invalidate sequence targeting the inner shareable domain, > Falkor may prematurely complete the DSB before all loads and stores using > the old translation are observed. Instruction fetches are not subject to > the conditions of this erratum. If the original code sequence includes > multiple TLB invalidate instructions followed by a single DSB, onle one of > the TLB instructions needs to be repeated to work around this erratum. > While the erratum only applies to cases in which the TLBI specifies the > inner-shareable domain (*IS form of TLBI) and the DSB is ISH form or > stronger (OSH, SYS), this changes applies the workaround overabundantly-- > to local TLBI, DSB NSH sequences as well--for simplicity. > > Based on work by Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Christopher Covington <cov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt | 1 + > arch/arm64/Kconfig | 10 ++++++++++ > arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h | 3 ++- > arch/arm64/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 18 +++++++++++++++--- > arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c | 7 +++++++ > 5 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) Thanks, this one looks good to me. It doesn't apply without the other erratum workaround (due to conflicts), so I'll have to wait for the discussion with Mark to each a conclusion before I can queue it. One minor comment inline... > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/tlbflush.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/tlbflush.h > index deab52374119..fc434f421c7b 100644 > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/tlbflush.h > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/tlbflush.h > @@ -36,9 +36,21 @@ > * not. The macros handles invoking the asm with or without the > * register argument as appropriate. > */ > -#define __TLBI_0(op, arg) asm ("tlbi " #op) > -#define __TLBI_1(op, arg) asm ("tlbi " #op ", %0" : : "r" (arg)) > -#define __TLBI_N(op, arg, n, ...) __TLBI_##n(op, arg) > +#define __TLBI_0(op, arg) asm volatile ("tlbi " #op "\n" \ > + ALTERNATIVE("nop\n nop", \ > + "dsb ish\n tlbi " #op, \ > + ARM64_WORKAROUND_REPEAT_TLBI, \ > + CONFIG_QCOM_FALKOR_ERRATUM_1009) \ > + : : ) > + > +#define __TLBI_1(op, arg) asm volatile ("tlbi " #op ", %0\n" \ > + ALTERNATIVE("nop\n nop", \ > + "dsb ish\n tlbi " #op ", %0", \ > + ARM64_WORKAROUND_REPEAT_TLBI, \ > + CONFIG_QCOM_FALKOR_ERRATUM_1009) \ > + : : "r" (arg)) I don't think you need to make these volatile. Will