From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, maz@kernel.org,
mark.rutland@arm.com, james.morse@arm.com,
anshuman.khandual@arm.com, leo.yan@linaro.org,
mike.leach@linaro.org, mathieu.poirier@linaro.org,
will@kernel.org, lcherian@marvell.com,
coresight@lists.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 15/17] arm64: Add erratum detection for TRBE write to out-of-range
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2021 17:10:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YV8cCBS1XWKLv+4G@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210921134121.2423546-16-suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 02:41:19PM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> Arm Neoverse-N2 and Cortex-A710 cores are affected by an erratum where the
> trbe, under some circumstances, might write upto 64bytes to an address after
> the Limit as programmed by the TRBLIMITR_EL1.LIMIT. This might -
>
> - Corrupt a page in the ring buffer, which may corrupt trace from a
> previous session, consumed by userspace.
> - Hit the guard page at the end of the vmalloc area and raise a fault.
>
> To keep the handling simpler, we always leave the last page from the
> range, which TRBE is allowed to write. This can be achieved by ensuring
> that we always have more than a PAGE worth space in the range, while
> calculating the LIMIT for TRBE. And then the LIMIT pointer can be adjusted
> to leave the PAGE (TRBLIMITR.LIMIT -= PAGE_SIZE), out of the TRBE range
> while enabling it. This makes sure that the TRBE will only write to an area
> within its allowed limit (i.e, [head-head+size]) and we do not have to handle
> address faults within the driver.
>
> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-21 13:41 [PATCH v2 00/17] arm64: Self-hosted trace related errata workarounds Suzuki K Poulose
2021-09-21 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 01/17] coresight: trbe: Fix incorrect access of the sink specific data Suzuki K Poulose
2021-09-22 5:41 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-09-30 17:57 ` Mathieu Poirier
2021-09-21 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 02/17] coresight: trbe: Add infrastructure for Errata handling Suzuki K Poulose
2021-09-22 6:47 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-10-05 16:46 ` Mathieu Poirier
2021-09-21 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 03/17] coresight: trbe: Add a helper to calculate the trace generated Suzuki K Poulose
2021-09-30 17:54 ` Mathieu Poirier
2021-10-01 8:36 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2021-10-01 15:15 ` Mathieu Poirier
2021-10-01 15:22 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2021-09-21 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 04/17] coresight: trbe: Add a helper to pad a given buffer area Suzuki K Poulose
2021-09-21 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 05/17] coresight: trbe: Decouple buffer base from the hardware base Suzuki K Poulose
2021-09-21 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 06/17] coresight: trbe: Allow driver to choose a different alignment Suzuki K Poulose
2021-09-21 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 07/17] arm64: Add Neoverse-N2, Cortex-A710 CPU part definition Suzuki K Poulose
2021-09-22 6:57 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-09-21 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 08/17] arm64: Add erratum detection for TRBE overwrite in FILL mode Suzuki K Poulose
2021-09-21 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 09/17] coresight: trbe: Workaround TRBE errata " Suzuki K Poulose
2021-09-23 6:13 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-09-28 10:40 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2021-10-01 4:21 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-10-01 17:15 ` Mathieu Poirier
2021-10-04 8:46 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2021-10-04 16:47 ` Mathieu Poirier
2021-09-21 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 10/17] arm64: Enable workaround for TRBE " Suzuki K Poulose
2021-09-22 7:23 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-09-22 8:11 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2021-10-01 4:35 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-10-07 16:09 ` Catalin Marinas
2021-09-21 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 11/17] arm64: errata: Add workaround for TSB flush failures Suzuki K Poulose
2021-09-22 7:39 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-09-22 12:03 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2021-10-01 4:38 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-10-07 16:10 ` Catalin Marinas
2021-09-21 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 12/17] coresight: trbe: Add a helper to fetch cpudata from perf handle Suzuki K Poulose
2021-09-22 7:59 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-10-04 17:42 ` Mathieu Poirier
2021-10-05 22:35 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2021-10-06 17:15 ` Mathieu Poirier
2021-10-07 9:18 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2021-09-21 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 13/17] coresight: trbe: Add a helper to determine the minimum buffer size Suzuki K Poulose
2021-09-22 9:51 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-09-21 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 14/17] coresight: trbe: Make sure we have enough space Suzuki K Poulose
2021-09-22 9:58 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-09-22 10:16 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2021-10-01 4:40 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-09-21 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 15/17] arm64: Add erratum detection for TRBE write to out-of-range Suzuki K Poulose
2021-09-22 10:59 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-10-07 16:10 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2021-09-21 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 16/17] coresight: trbe: Work around write to out of range Suzuki K Poulose
2021-09-23 3:15 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-09-28 10:32 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2021-10-01 4:56 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-09-21 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 17/17] arm64: Advertise TRBE erratum workaround for write to out-of-range address Suzuki K Poulose
2021-09-22 11:03 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-10-07 16:11 ` Catalin Marinas
2021-10-05 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 00/17] arm64: Self-hosted trace related errata workarounds Mathieu Poirier
2021-10-08 7:32 ` Will Deacon
2021-10-08 9:25 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2021-10-08 9:52 ` Will Deacon
2021-10-08 9:57 ` Suzuki K Poulose
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