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 existing DSU errata workarounds hijack the errata framework's inner
workings to register with it. However, that is undesirable as any change
to the framework may end up missing these workarounds. So convert the
checks and workarounds to macros and have them included with the
standard wrappers.
The only problem with this is the is_scu_present_in_dsu weak function.
Fortunately, it is only needed for 2 of the errata and only on 3 cores.
So drop it, assuming the default behaviour and have the callers handle
the exception.
Change-Id: Iefa36325804ea093e938f867b9a6f49a6984b8ae
Signed-off-by: Boyan Karatotev <boyan.karatotev@arm.com>
Result was verified by manually stepping through the reset function with
a debugger.
Change-Id: I91cd6111ccf95d6b7ee2364ac2126cb98ee4bb15
Signed-off-by: Boyan Karatotev <boyan.karatotev@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>
