On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 11:26:04AM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote: > commit ece1397cbc89c51914fae1aec729539cfd8bd62b upstream > > Some variants of the Arm Cortex-55 cores (r0p0, r0p1, r1p0) suffer > from an erratum 1024718, which causes incorrect updates when DBM/AP > bits in a page table entry is modified without a break-before-make > sequence. The work around is to disable the hardware DBM feature > on the affected cores. The hardware Access Flag management features > is not affected. > > The hardware DBM feature is a non-conflicting capability, i.e, the > kernel could handle cores using the feature and those without having > the features running at the same time. So this work around is detected > at early boot time, rather than delaying it until the CPUs are brought > up into the kernel with MMU turned on. This also avoids other complexities > with late CPUs turning online, with or without the hardware DBM features. > > Note: The upstream commit is on top of a reworked capability > infrastructure for arm64 heterogeneous systems, which allows > handling this later in the boot process. This backport > is based on the original version of the patch [0]. Folded the 3 > patches into this single commit, removing the unncessary bits. > > [0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180116102323.3470-1-suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.3 to v4.16 This only would apply to the 4.16.y tree. Can you provide working backports to 4.14.y, 4.9.y, and 4.4.y so I can queue them up there as well? thanks, greg k-h
