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>
Cortex-A720-AE erratum 3699562 that applies to r0p0 and 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-3090091/latest/
Change-Id: Ib830470747822cac916750c01684a65cb5efc15b
Signed-off-by: Govindraj Raja <govindraj.raja@arm.com>
Add the basic CPU library code to support Cortex-A720AE.
The overall library code is adapted based on Cortex-A720 code.
Signed-off-by: David Hu <david.hu2@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ahmed Azeem <ahmed.azeem@arm.com>
Change-Id: I3d64dc5a3098cc823e656a5ad3ea05cd71598dc6
