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 V3 erratum 2970647 that applies to r0p0 and is fixed in r0p1.
In EL3, reads of MPIDR_EL1 and MIDR_EL1 might incorrectly virtualize
which register to return when reading the value of
MPIDR_EL1/VMPIDR_EL2 and MIDR_EL1/VPIDR_EL2, respectively.
The workaround is to do an ISB prior to an MRS read to either
MPIDR_EL1 and MIDR_EL1.
SDEN documentation:
https://developer.arm.com/documentation/SDEN-2891958/latest/
Change-Id: Iedf7d799451f0be58a5da1f93f7f5b6940f2bb35
Signed-off-by: Govindraj Raja <govindraj.raja@arm.com>
Neoverse-V3 erratum 3701767 that applies to r0p0, r0p1, r0p2 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-2891958/latest/
Change-Id: I5be0de881f408a9e82a07b8459d79490e9065f94
Signed-off-by: Govindraj Raja <govindraj.raja@arm.com>
This patch implements SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_4 and
allows discovery through SMCCC_ARCH_FEATURES.
This mechanism is enabled if CVE_2024_7881 [1] is enabled
by the platform. If CVE_2024_7881 mitigation
is implemented, the discovery call returns 0,
if not -1 (SMC_ARCH_CALL_NOT_SUPPORTED).
For more information about SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_4 [2], please
refer to the SMCCC Specification reference provided below.
[1]: https://developer.arm.com/Arm%20Security%20Center/Arm%20CPU%20Vulnerability%20CVE-2024-7881
[2]: https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0028/latest
Signed-off-by: Arvind Ram Prakash <arvind.ramprakash@arm.com>
Change-Id: I1b1ffaa1f806f07472fd79d5525f81764d99bc79
Implements mitigation for CVE-2024-5660 that affects Neoverse-V3
revisions r0p0, r0p1.
The workaround is to disable the hardware page aggregation at
EL3 by setting CPUECTLR_EL1[46] = 1'b1.
Public Documentation:
https://developer.arm.com/Arm%20Security%20Center/Arm%20CPU%20Vulnerability%20CVE-2024-5660
Change-Id: I9ed2590bf1215bf6a692f01dfd351e469ff072f8
Signed-off-by: Sona Mathew <sonarebecca.mathew@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>
Rename Neoverse Poseidon to Neoverse V3, make changes
to related build flags, macros, file names etc.
Change-Id: I9e40ba8f80b7390703d543787e6cd2ab6301e891
Signed-off-by: Sona Mathew <sonarebecca.mathew@arm.com>
