MPMM is a core-specific microarchitectural feature. It has been present
in every Arm core since the Cortex-A510 and has been implemented in
exactly the same way. Despite that, it is enabled more like an
architectural feature with a top level enable flag. This utilised the
identical implementation.
This duality has left MPMM in an awkward place, where its enablement
should be generic, like an architectural feature, but since it is not,
it should also be core-specific if it ever changes. One choice to do
this has been through the device tree.
This has worked just fine so far, however, recent implementations expose
a weakness in that this is rather slow - the device tree has to be read,
there's a long call stack of functions with many branches, and system
registers are read. In the hot path of PSCI CPU powerdown, this has a
significant and measurable impact. Besides it being a rather large
amount of code that is difficult to understand.
Since MPMM is a microarchitectural feature, its correct placement is in
the reset function. The essence of the current enablement is to write
CPUPPMCR_EL3.MPMM_EN if CPUPPMCR_EL3.MPMMPINCTL == 0. Replacing the C
enablement with an assembly macro in each CPU's reset function achieves
the same effect with just a single close branch and a grand total of 6
instructions (versus the old 2 branches and 32 instructions).
Having done this, the device tree entry becomes redundant. Should a core
that doesn't support MPMM arise, this can cleanly be handled in the
reset function. As such, the whole ENABLE_MPMM_FCONF and platform hooks
mechanisms become obsolete and are removed.
Change-Id: I1d0475b21a1625bb3519f513ba109284f973ffdf
Signed-off-by: Boyan Karatotev <boyan.karatotev@arm.com>
There errata don't have a workaround in the cpu file. So calling the
wrappers is redundant. We can simply register them with the framework.
Change-Id: I316daeee603e86c9f2bdccf91e1b10f7ec6c3f9d
Signed-off-by: Boyan Karatotev <boyan.karatotev@arm.com>
Errata application is painful for performance. For a start, it's done
when the core has just come out of reset, which means branch predictors
and caches will be empty so a branch to a workaround function must be
fetched from memory and that round trip is very slow. Then it also runs
with the I-cache off, which means that the loop to iterate over the
workarounds must also be fetched from memory on each iteration.
We can remove both branches. First, we can simply apply every erratum
directly instead of defining a workaround function and jumping to it.
Currently, no errata that need to be applied at both reset and runtime,
with the same workaround function, exist. If the need arose in future,
this should be achievable with a reset + runtime wrapper combo.
Then, we can construct a function that applies each erratum linearly
instead of looping over the list. If this function is part of the reset
function, then the only "far" branches at reset will be for the checker
functions. Importantly, this mitigates the slowdown even when an erratum
is disabled.
The result is ~50% speedup on N1SDP and ~20% on AArch64 Juno on wakeup
from PSCI calls that end in powerdown. This is roughly back to the
baseline of v2.9, before the errata framework regressed on performance
(or a little better). It is important to note that there are other
slowdowns since then that remain unknown.
Change-Id: Ie4d5288a331b11fd648e5c4a0b652b74160b07b9
Signed-off-by: Boyan Karatotev <boyan.karatotev@arm.com>
The library check_erratum_ls already incorporates the check. The return
of ERRATA_MISSING is handled in the errata_report.c functions.
Change-Id: Ic1dff2bc5235195f7cfce1709cd42467f88b3e4c
Signed-off-by: Boyan Karatotev <boyan.karatotev@arm.com>
This patch implements errata functions for two errata, both of them
disable TRBE as a workaround. This patch doesn't have functions
that disable TRBE but only implemented helper functions that are
used to detect cores affected by Errata 2938996(Cortex-A520) & 2726228(Cortex-X4)
Cortex-X4 SDEN documentation:
https://developer.arm.com/documentation/SDEN2432808/latest
Cortex-A520 SDEN Documentation:
https://developer.arm.com/documentation/SDEN-2444153/latest
Signed-off-by: Arvind Ram Prakash <arvind.ramprakash@arm.com>
Change-Id: I8f886a1c21698f546a0996c719cc27dc0a23633a
Errata printing is done directly via generic_errata_report.
This commit removes the unused \_cpu\()_errata_report
functions for all cores, and removes errata_func from cpu_ops.
Change-Id: I04fefbde5f0ff63b1f1cd17c864557a14070d68c
Signed-off-by: Ryan Everett <ryan.everett@arm.com>
Cortex-A520 erratum 2858100 is a Cat B erratum that applies to
all revisions <=r0p1 and is still open. The workaround is to
set bit[29] of CPUACTLR_EL1.
SDEN Documentation:
https://developer.arm.com/documentation/SDEN-2444153/latest
Signed-off-by: Arvind Ram Prakash <arvind.ramprakash@arm.com>
Change-Id: I5a07163f919352583b03328abd5659bf7b268677
Cortex-A520 erratum is a Cat B erratum that applies
to revisions r0p0 and r0p1 and is still open.
The workaround is to set CPUACTLR_EL1[38] to 1.
SDEN Documentation:
https://developer.arm.com/documentation/SDEN-2444153/latest
Change-Id: Idb6f32f680ee1378a57c2d2f809ea847fffe5910
Signed-off-by: Sona Mathew <sonarebecca.mathew@arm.com>
Adapt to use errata frame-work cpu macro helpers for following cpus:
- cortex-a520
- cortex-a720
- cortex-x4
- cortex-chaberton
- cortex-blackhawk
- Use sysreg_bit_set helper macro for enabling of any system register
bit field.
- Use errata_report_shim macro for reporting errata.
- Use cpu_reset_func_start/end helpers for adding cpu reset functions.
Testing:
- Manual comparison of disassembly with and without conversion.
- Using the test script in gerrit - 19136
- Building with erratas and stepping through from ArmDS and running tftf.
Change-Id: I954fb603aa3746e02f2288656b98148d9cfd7843
Signed-off-by: Govindraj Raja <govindraj.raja@arm.com>
