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>
Similar to the cpu_rev_var and cpu_ger_rev_var functions, inline the
call_reset_handler handler. This way we skip the costly branch at no
extra cost as this is the only place where this is called.
While we're at it, drop the options for CPU_NO_RESET_FUNC. The only cpus
that need that are virtual cpus which can spare the tiny bit of
performance lost. The rest are real cores which can save on the check
for zero.
Now is a good time to put the assert for a missing cpu in the
get_cpu_ops_ptr function so that it's a bit better encapsulated.
Change-Id: Ia7c3dcd13b75e5d7c8bafad4698994ea65f42406
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>
This involves replacing:
* the <cpu>_errata_report with the errata_report_shim to report errata
automatically.
Change-Id: I78b65052dcfc1f29b7dec443bd0aaf67d0efb4eb
Signed-off-by: Maksims Svecovs <maksims.svecovs@arm.com>
Enable basic support for QEMU "max" CPU.
The "max" CPU does not attampt to emulate any specific CPU, but rather
just enables all the functions emulated by QEMU.
Change-Id: I69c212932ef61433509662d0fefbabb1e9e71cf2
Signed-off-by: Leif Lindholm <leif@nuviainc.com>
