[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.2 114/171] arm64: assembler: Switch ESB-instruction with a vanilla nop if !ARM64_HAS_RAS

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Fri Jul 19 2019 - 00:00:42 EST


From: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 2b68a2a963a157f024c67c0697b16f5f792c8a35 ]

The ESB-instruction is a nop on CPUs that don't implement the RAS
extensions. This lets us use it in places like the vectors without
having to use alternatives.

If someone disables CONFIG_ARM64_RAS_EXTN, this instruction still has
its RAS extensions behaviour, but we no longer read DISR_EL1 as this
register does depend on alternatives.

This could go wrong if we want to synchronize an SError from a KVM
guest. On a CPU that has the RAS extensions, but the KConfig option
was disabled, we consume the pending SError with no chance of ever
reading it.

Hide the ESB-instruction behind the CONFIG_ARM64_RAS_EXTN option,
outputting a regular nop if the feature has been disabled.

Reported-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
index 570d195a184d..e3a15c751b13 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
@@ -96,7 +96,11 @@
* RAS Error Synchronization barrier
*/
.macro esb
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_RAS_EXTN
hint #16
+#else
+ nop
+#endif
.endm

/*
--
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