linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: errata: add support for A12/A17 errata CR711784

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Date:   Tue, 23 Apr 2019 07:37:53 -0700
From:   Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
To:     Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
Cc:     Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Jose Salvador Climent Bayarri <Salva.Climent@....com>,
        "open list:ARM/Rockchip SoC..." <linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@...omium.org>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Bobby Batacharia <bbatacha@....com>,
        Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>,
        Heiko Stübner <heiko@...ech.de>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: errata: add support for A12/A17 errata CR711784

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 3:19 AM Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com> wrote:
>
> Hi Doug,
>
> On 19/04/2019 23:18, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> > This adds a code for turning on chicken bit 11, which appears to avoid
> > a potential CPU deadlock that could occur.  The exact set of
> > instruction needed to trigger this errata is not totaly known but we
> > have a high level of confidence that the problem is fixed by setting
> > chicken bit 11.
> >
> > All details are in http://crbug.com/711784
> >
> > This erratum has no known number and thus I have tagged it CR711784
> > (after the Chrome OS bug number).  I have created separate A12 / A17
> > configs to match how the rest of the A12 / A17 errata is handled.
>
> The written-up workarounds for 85727[12] do actually say to set both
> bits 10 and 11 of the diagnostic register, so you could probably just
> fold this into the first patch and not have to worry about what to call it.
>
> Robin.

Thanks!  I was unable to find any official docs here and my past
contacts with ARM about this matter have been silent.  All I had was a
preliminary errata description and it only included bit 10.

I'll spin a v2 with them both together then.

-Doug