linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 03/15] arm64: errata: Add workaround for TSB flush failures

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Message-ID: <20211019114234.GH13251@willie-the-truck>
Date:   Tue, 19 Oct 2021 12:42:34 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To:     Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
Cc:     mathieu.poirier@...aro.org, catalin.marinas@....com,
        anshuman.khandual@....com, mike.leach@...aro.org,
        leo.yan@...aro.org, maz@...nel.org, coresight@...ts.linaro.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 03/15] arm64: errata: Add workaround for TSB flush
 failures

On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 12:36:48PM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> On 19/10/2021 12:02, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 11:31:13PM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> > > @@ -558,6 +570,13 @@ const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities arm64_errata[] = {
> > >   		.type = ARM64_CPUCAP_WEAK_LOCAL_CPU_FEATURE,
> > >   		CAP_MIDR_RANGE_LIST(trbe_overwrite_fill_mode_cpus),
> > >   	},
> > > +#endif
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_WORKAROUND_TSB_FLUSH_FAILRE
> > 
> > You still haven't fixed this typo...
> > 
> 
> Sorry about that. I thought it was about selecting the
> Kconfig entries, which was fixed. I will fix this.

Sorry, I thought it was such a howler that it would've jumped out ;)
That's what made me think we should make sure the series compiles without
the coresight changes, so we can catch these problems early.

> > Seriously, I get compile warnings from this -- are you not seeing them?
> 
> No, I don't get any warnings. Is there something that I am missing ?

Interesting. I see the warning below in my bisection testing, since the typo
means that the midr lookup table isn't used. Maybe you're only compiling the
end result?

Will

--->8

+arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c:356:32: warning: ‘tsb_flush_fail_cpus’ defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
+  356 | static const struct midr_range tsb_flush_fail_cpus[] = {
+      |                                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~