From: robherring2@gmail.com (Rob Herring)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Multi-platform, and secure-only ARM errata workarounds
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:07:30 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <512CC1A2.3060704@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130226113538.GS17833@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
On 02/26/2013 05:35 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:23:26AM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Monday 25 February 2013, Stephen Warren wrote:
>>> Is there any other alternative I'm not seeing? Having the kernel
>>> suddenly become incompatible with any currently extant bootloader when I
>>> enable CONFIG_MULTIPLATFORM doesn't seem like a great idea.
>>
>> Could we make those errata be run-time enabled only when not booting
>> in secure mode?
>
> The long and the short answer to this is... no.
>
> 1. It is impossible to tell whether we're running secure or non-secure.
>
> 2. Errata need to be applied before the MMU is initialized. We need the
> MMU to be initialized to run any C code what so ever, so calling out
> to platform specific code to set errata is not possible. Moreover,
> we no longer determine the platform in the assembly code since DT
> came along: this was removed because detecting it in DT from assembly
> is far from trivial (you'd need to write an assembly DT parser).
>
> Now, as for having the secure mode errata enabled on a kernel running in
> non-secure mode... what happens today is that we check whether something
> before the kernel has enabled the workaround, and we omit to write to
> the register.
>
> What that means is that we expect whatever came before the kernel to have
> appropriately enabled the bits in the secure registers. If it hasn't,
> and you have one of these secure mode workarounds enabled, the kernel
> will fault at boot time.
Only when booting in non-secure mode...
> So, if Stephen has working configs with these secure mode workarounds
> enabled, this means that the bits in the secure registers must already
> be appropriately set.
...and Stephen is booting in secure mode.
> Could the problem be that someone has made all errata workarounds, even
> those which apply after the system is up and running, depend on
> !MULTIPLATFORM ?
I don't think so. All those work-arounds remain and can be enabled.
There was one (430973) which had both a boot time chicken bit setting
and runtime piece. Only the boot time part of it is disabled for multi-plat.
Rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-26 14:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-25 23:47 Multi-platform, and secure-only ARM errata workarounds Stephen Warren
2013-02-26 9:36 ` Marc Dietrich
2013-02-26 16:39 ` Stephen Warren
2013-02-26 22:31 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-27 9:03 ` Marc Dietrich
2013-02-27 14:00 ` Rob Herring
2013-02-27 17:42 ` Stephen Warren
2013-02-28 13:58 ` Marc Dietrich
2013-02-26 10:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-26 10:31 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-02-26 10:35 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-02-26 10:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-26 11:11 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-02-26 11:35 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-02-26 14:07 ` Rob Herring [this message]
2013-02-26 18:01 ` Stephen Warren
2013-02-26 18:11 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-02-26 18:30 ` Stephen Warren
2013-02-26 18:49 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-02-27 6:07 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-03-01 17:37 ` Stephen Warren
2013-03-01 18:05 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-03-04 6:34 ` Peter De Schrijver
2013-03-04 9:16 ` Peter De Schrijver
2013-03-04 17:08 ` Stephen Warren
2013-03-05 7:40 ` Peter De Schrijver
2013-03-05 17:00 ` Stephen Warren
2013-03-06 8:14 ` Peter De Schrijver
2013-03-06 16:18 ` Stephen Warren
2013-03-10 17:25 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-03-10 18:47 ` Olof Johansson
2013-03-11 16:59 ` Stephen Warren
2013-03-11 18:54 ` Jason Gunthorpe
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