Re: [PATCH 13/17] arm64: cpu_errata: Allow an erratum to be match for all revisions of a core

From: Suzuki K Poulose
Date: Mon Mar 20 2017 - 11:58:54 EST


On 20/03/17 14:56, Mark Rutland wrote:
On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 11:26:18AM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
Some minor erratum may not be fixed in further revisions of a core,
leading to a situation where the workaround needs to be updated each
time an updated core is released.

That is somewhat unfortunate. :(

Introduce a MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS match helper that will work for all
versions of that MIDR, once and for all.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>

This looks sane to me. FWIW:

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>

Suzuki, any thoughts?

Fine by me.

Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>



Mark.

---
arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
index f6cc67e7626e..2be1d1c05303 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
@@ -53,6 +53,13 @@ static int cpu_enable_trap_ctr_access(void *__unused)
.midr_range_min = min, \
.midr_range_max = max

+#define MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS(model) \
+ .def_scope = SCOPE_LOCAL_CPU, \
+ .matches = is_affected_midr_range, \
+ .midr_model = model, \
+ .midr_range_min = 0, \
+ .midr_range_max = (MIDR_VARIANT_MASK | MIDR_REVISION_MASK)
+
const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities arm64_errata[] = {
#if defined(CONFIG_ARM64_ERRATUM_826319) || \
defined(CONFIG_ARM64_ERRATUM_827319) || \
--
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