linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/8] arm64: Work around for mismatched cache line size

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Message-Id: <1467977839-27543-1-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Date:	Fri,  8 Jul 2016 12:37:09 +0100
From:	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
To:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, catalin.marinas@....com,
	mark.rutland@....com, will.deacon@....com,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/8]  arm64: Work around for mismatched cache line size

This series adds a work around for systems with mismatched {I,D}-cache
line sizes. When a thread of execution gets migrated to a different CPU,
the cache line size it had cached could be larger than that of the new
CPU. This could cause data corruption issues. We work around this by

 - Dynamically patching the kernel to use the smallest line size on the
   system (from the CPU feature infrastructure)
 - Trapping the userspace access to CTR_EL0 (by clearing SCTLR_EL1.UCT) and
   emulating it with the system wide safe value of CTR.

The series also adds support for alternative code patching of adrp
instructions by adjusting the PC-relative address offset to reflect
the new PC.

The series has been tested on Juno with a hack to forced enabling
of the capability.

Applies on aarch64: for-next/core. The tree is avaiable at :

	git://linux-arm.org/linux-skp.git ctr-emulation


Suzuki K Poulose (8):
  arm64: Set the safe value for L1 icache policy
  arm64: Use consistent naming for errata handling
  arm64: Rearrange CPU errata workaround checks
  arm64/insn: Add helpers for pc relative address offsets
  arm64: alternative: Add support for patching adrp instructions
  arm64: Introduce raw_{d,i}cache_line_size
  arm64: Refactor sysinstr exception handling
  arm64: Work around systems with mismatched cache line sizes

 arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h  | 45 +++++++++++++++++--
 arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 14 +++---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/esr.h        | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h       |  5 +++
 arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h     |  1 +
 arch/arm64/kernel/alternative.c     | 13 ++++++
 arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c     |  2 +
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c      | 26 ++++++++++-
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c      | 44 ++++++++++++++-----
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c         |  2 -
 arch/arm64/kernel/hibernate-asm.S   |  2 +-
 arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c            | 23 ++++++++++
 arch/arm64/kernel/relocate_kernel.S |  2 +-
 arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c             |  8 +++-
 arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c           | 87 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 15 files changed, 275 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)

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