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* Re: [RFC patch 4/4] riscv: sifive: apply errata "cip-453" patch
@ 2021-03-10 19:02 Ruinland ChuanTzu Tsai
  2021-03-12  7:45 ` Vincent Chen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Ruinland ChuanTzu Tsai @ 2021-03-10 19:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-riscv; +Cc: alankao, ruinland

Hi Vincent,

Thanks for introducing the alternative mechanism to RISC-V, with which
vendors could provide fixes for each erratum in a more elegant way.

Somehow, I'm a bit sketchy about these parts of your proposal :

>     /* Exception vector table */
>  ENTRY(excp_vect_table)
>     RISCV_PTR do_trap_insn_misaligned
> -   RISCV_PTR do_trap_insn_fault
> +   ALTERNATIVE(__stringify(RISCV_PTR do_trap_insn_fault),
> +           __stringify(RISCV_PTR do_trap_insn_fault_trampoline),
> +           SIFIVE_VENDOR_ID, ERRATA_CIP_453, CONFIG_ERRATA_SIFIVE_CIP_453)
>     RISCV_PTR do_trap_insn_illegal
>     RISCV_PTR do_trap_break
>     RISCV_PTR do_trap_load_misaligned
> @@ -461,7 +466,10 @@ ENTRY(excp_vect_table)
>     RISCV_PTR do_trap_ecall_s
>     RISCV_PTR do_trap_unknown
>     RISCV_PTR do_trap_ecall_m
> -   RISCV_PTR do_page_fault   /* instruction page fault */
> +   /* instruciton page fault */
> +   ALTERNATIVE(__stringify(RISCV_PTR do_page_fault),
> +           __stringify(RISCV_PTR do_page_fault_trampoline),
> +           SIFIVE_VENDOR_ID, ERRATA_CIP_453, CONFIG_ERRATA_SIFIVE_CIP_453)
>     RISCV_PTR do_page_fault   /* load page fault */

As far as I can tell, `ALTERNATIVE(...)` seems a bit like a mixture of
ARM's version of ALTERNATIVE and `alternative_insn`. However, ARM's
ALTERNATIVE takes a vardatic macro and yours here doesn't, which makes
me wonder if another vendor needs to patch the same location as yours,
will they be able to multiplex the same probe ?


Secondly, I think it's a bit intrusive to patch directly on exception
vector table here.

I'm not sure about whether it's possible to introduce your alternative
probe inside do_trap_insn_fault() & do_page_fault(), do the inspection
the reason of trap (e.g. instruction/load/store page fault) there and
then, perform the software workaround.

If that's not feasible, maybe we shall make a new macro with a name
like "RISCV_TRAP_ENTRY" which encompass the alternative probes ?

Last but not least, is it possible that in the near future,
`alternative_if` macro family from ARM could be ported to RISC-V ?

Best regards,
Ruinland

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* [RFC patch 0/4] riscv: introduce alternative mechanism to apply errata patches
@ 2021-03-08  3:58 Vincent Chen
  2021-03-08  3:58 ` [RFC patch 4/4] riscv: sifive: apply errata "cip-453" patch Vincent Chen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Vincent Chen @ 2021-03-08  3:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-riscv, palmer
  Cc: Frank.Zhao, atish.patra, anup.patel, guoren, alankao,
	paul.walmsley, Vincent Chen

With the emergence of more and more RISC-V CPUs, the request for how to
upstream the vendor errata patch may gradually appear. In order to resolve
this issue, this patch introduces the alternative mechanism from ARM64 and
x86 to enable the kernel to patch code at runtime according to the
manufacturer information of the running CPU. The main purpose of this patch
set is to propose a framework to apply vendor's errata solutions. Based on
this framework, it can be ensured that the errata only applies to the
specified CPU cores. Other CPU cores do not be affected. Therefore, some
complicated scenarios are unsupported in this patch set, such as patching
code to the kernel module, doing relocation in patching code, and
heterogeneous CPU topology.

In the "alternative" scheme, Users could use the macro ALTERNATIVE to apply
an errata to the existing code flow. In the macro ALTERNATIVE, users need
to specify the manufacturer information (vendor id, arch id, and implement
id) for this errata. Therefore, kernel will know this errata is suitable
for which CPU core. During the booting procedure, kernel will select the
errata required by the CPU core and then patch it. It means that the kernel
only applies the errata to the specified CPU core. In this case, the
vendor's errata does not affect each other at runtime. The above patching
procedure only occurs during the booting phase, so we only take the
overhead of the "alternative" mechanism once.

This "alternative" mechanism is enabled by default to ensure that all
required errata will be applied. However, users can disable this feature by
the Kconfig "CONFIG_RISCV_ERRATA_ALTERNATIVE".

The last patch is to apply the SiFive CIP-453 errata by this "alternative"
scheme. Therefore, It can be regarded as an example. According to the
results of running this image on the QEMU virt platform, kernel does not
apply this errata at run-time because the CPU manufacturer information
does not match the specified SiFive CPU core. Therefore, this errata does
not affect any CPU core except for the specified SiFive cores.

Vincent Chen (4):
  riscv: Add 3 SBI wrapper functions to get cpu manufacturer information
  riscv: Get CPU manufacturer information
  riscv: Introduce alternative mechanism to apply errata solution
  riscv: sifive: apply errata "cip-453" patch

 arch/riscv/Kconfig                          |   1 +
 arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas                  |  32 ++++++++
 arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs                     |   1 +
 arch/riscv/Makefile                         |   1 +
 arch/riscv/errata/Makefile                  |   2 +
 arch/riscv/errata/alternative.c             |  69 +++++++++++++++++
 arch/riscv/errata/sifive/Makefile           |   2 +
 arch/riscv/errata/sifive/errata.c           |  56 ++++++++++++++
 arch/riscv/errata/sifive/errata_cip_453.S   |  34 +++++++++
 arch/riscv/include/asm/alternative-macros.h | 110 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/riscv/include/asm/alternative.h        |  44 +++++++++++
 arch/riscv/include/asm/asm.h                |   1 +
 arch/riscv/include/asm/csr.h                |   3 +
 arch/riscv/include/asm/errata_list.h        |   9 +++
 arch/riscv/include/asm/hwcap.h              |   6 ++
 arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h          |   2 +
 arch/riscv/include/asm/sbi.h                |   3 +
 arch/riscv/include/asm/sections.h           |   2 +
 arch/riscv/include/asm/soc.h                |   1 +
 arch/riscv/include/asm/vendorid_list.h      |   6 ++
 arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c              |  17 +++++
 arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S                   |  12 ++-
 arch/riscv/kernel/sbi.c                     |  15 ++++
 arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c                   |   2 +
 arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c                 |   4 +
 arch/riscv/kernel/soc.c                     |   1 +
 arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S             |  14 ++++
 27 files changed, 448 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas
 create mode 100644 arch/riscv/errata/Makefile
 create mode 100644 arch/riscv/errata/alternative.c
 create mode 100644 arch/riscv/errata/sifive/Makefile
 create mode 100644 arch/riscv/errata/sifive/errata.c
 create mode 100644 arch/riscv/errata/sifive/errata_cip_453.S
 create mode 100644 arch/riscv/include/asm/alternative-macros.h
 create mode 100644 arch/riscv/include/asm/alternative.h
 create mode 100644 arch/riscv/include/asm/errata_list.h
 create mode 100644 arch/riscv/include/asm/vendorid_list.h

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2.7.4


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