From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: kernelci-results@groups.io,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>,
Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>, Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Guillaume Tucker <guillaume.tucker@collabora.com>,
Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: next/master bisection: baseline.login on rk3288-rock2-square
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2021 15:25:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMj1kXHf0dNvsrfct6rCxi_yHXcQCqjwJoMa_TD0Fh6xo2zeZQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210204140911.GX1463@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 at 15:09, Russell King - ARM Linux admin
<linux@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 12:26:44PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > I agree. With set/way CMOs, there is no way to reach the PoC if
> > it beyond the system cache, leading to an unbootable kernel.
> > This is actually pretty well documented in the architecture,
> > and it did bite us for the first time on XGene-1, 7 years ago.
>
> That may be, however we still do set/way maintenance to invalidate
> the L1 cache as that is required for ARMv7 to place the cache into
> a known state, as stated by the architecture reference manual.
>
Getting a certain cache at a certain level into a known state is a
valid use of set/way ops, and is simply unnecessary when running under
virtualization, but doesn't do any harm.
Pushing contents of the cache hierarchy to main memory is *not* a
valid use of set/way ops, and so there is no point in pretending that
set/way ops will produce the same results as by-VA ops. Only the by-VA
ops give the architectural guarantees that we rely on for correctness.
> Arguably, that should be done by firmware, but when starting
> secondary CPUs, there are platforms out there which do not bring
> the L1 cache to a defined state. So we are pretty much stuck with
> doing set/way operations during CPU initialisation in the main
> kernel.
>
Indeed. And this is unfortunate, but not the end of the world.
> If ARMv8 decides that this is not supportable, then that's a matter
> for ARMv8 to address without impacting the requirements of ARMv7.
>
I'm not sure what you mean here. The v7 architecture is crystal clear
about the difference between set/way ops (managing a single cache),
and by-VA ops (managing the 'cachedness' state of a memory region).
The semantics are radically different, regardless of v7 vs v8 or
AArch32 vs AArch64.
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2021-02-04 8:43 ` next/master bisection: baseline.login on rk3288-rock2-square Guillaume Tucker
2021-02-04 9:07 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-02-04 10:06 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-02-04 10:27 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-02-04 10:33 ` Guillaume Tucker
2021-02-04 11:32 ` Guillaume Tucker
2021-02-04 11:44 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-02-04 12:09 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-02-04 15:42 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-02-04 15:53 ` Guillaume Tucker
2021-02-04 16:01 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-02-04 18:06 ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-02-04 18:12 ` Nathan Chancellor
2021-02-04 18:23 ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-02-04 21:31 ` Guillaume Tucker
2021-02-04 21:50 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-02-05 8:21 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-02-05 12:05 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-02-06 13:10 ` Guillaume Tucker
2021-02-06 13:12 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-02-04 21:09 ` Guillaume Tucker
2021-02-04 10:47 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-02-04 10:55 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-02-04 12:26 ` Marc Zyngier
2021-02-04 14:09 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-02-04 14:25 ` Ard Biesheuvel [this message]
2021-02-04 14:36 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-02-04 15:52 ` Ard Biesheuvel
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