linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64: Work around Falkor erratum 1009

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Date:   Thu, 8 Dec 2016 13:27:46 +0000
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc:     Christopher Covington <cov@...eaurora.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu,
        Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: Work around Falkor erratum 1009

On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 11:45:12AM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 03:04:31PM -0500, Christopher Covington wrote:
> > +	asm volatile(ALTERNATIVE(
> > +		     "nop \n"
> > +		     "nop \n",
> > +		     "tlbi vmalle1is \n"
> > +		     "dsb ish \n",
> 
> As a general note, perhaps we want a C compatible NOP_ALTERNATIVE() so
> that the nop case can be implicitly generated for sequences like this.

It's also worth checking what cpus_have_const_cap() would generate for
the default (no workaround required) case.

-- 
Catalin