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>
Neoverse-N3 erratum 3699563 that applies to r0p0 is still Open.
The workaround is for EL3 software that performs context save/restore
on a change of Security state to use a value of SCR_EL3.NS when
accessing ICH_VMCR_EL2 that reflects the Security state that owns the
data being saved or restored.
SDEN documentation:
https://developer.arm.com/documentation/SDEN-3050973/latest/
Change-Id: I77aaf8ae0afff3adde9a85f4a1a13ac9d1daf0af
Signed-off-by: Govindraj Raja <govindraj.raja@arm.com>
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>
The CPUECTLR_EL1.EXTLLC bit indicates that an external last level
cache(LLC) is present in the system. The default value is internal LLC.
Some systems which may have External LLC can enable the External LLC
presece with the build option 'NEOVERSE_Nx_EXTERNAL_LLC'.
Change-Id: I2567283a55c0d6e2f9fd986b7dbab91c7a815d3d
Signed-off-by: Younghyun Park <younghyunpark@google.com>
