Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] arm64: Combine workarounds for speculative AT errata

[Steven Price]

On 13/11/2019 12:44, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 2019-11-13 12:50, Steven Price wrote:
>> Cortex-A57/A72 have a similar errata to Cortex-A76 regarding speculation
>> of the AT instruction. Since the workaround for A57/A72 doesn't require
>> VHE, the restriction enforcing VHE for A76 can be removed by combining
>> the workaround flag for both errata.
> 
> Are we sure that A76 behaves the same as A57/A72 when it comes to not
> caching any of the EPD* bits in the TLB? Because the 1319367 workaround
> has a lot of the A72 microarch implicit to it, and I'm not sure this
> works as is on A76 or A55...

Hmm, well I was going purely on the errata documents which have
basically the same text for all the errata. I have to admit I do not
understand the microarch details here. Perhaps it would be better to
leave the VHE and NVHE cases separated then?

Steven

> The patch itself looks OK, but I'd like some reassurance about the
> above.
> 
> ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ M.