Re: [PATCH v2 00/17] arm64: Self-hosted trace related errata workarounds

[Mathieu Poirier]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 02:41:04PM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> This series adds CPU erratum work arounds related to the self-hosted
> tracing. The list of affected errata handled in this series are :
> 
>  * TRBE may overwrite trace in FILL mode
>    - Arm Neoverse-N2	#2139208
>    - Cortex-A710	#211985
> 
>  * A TSB instruction may not flush the trace completely when executed
>    in trace prohibited region.
> 
>    - Arm Neoverse-N2	#2067961
>    - Cortex-A710	#2054223
> 
>  * TRBE may write to out-of-range address
>    - Arm Neoverse-N2	#2253138
>    - Cortex-A710	#2224489
> 
> The series applies on the self-hosted/trbe fixes posted here [0].
> A tree containing both the series is available here [1]
> 
>  [0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210914102641.1852544-1-suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx
>  [1] git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:linux-arm/linux-skp.git coresight/errata/trbe-tsb-n2-a710/v2
> 
> Changes since v1:
>  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210728135217.591173-1-suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx
>  - Added a fix to the TRBE driver handling of sink_specific data
>  - Added more description and ASCII art for overwrite in FILL mode
>    work around 
>  - Added another TRBE erratum to the list.
>   "TRBE may write to out-of-range address"
>   Patches from 12-17
>  - Added comment to list the expectations around TSB erratum workaround.
> 
> 
> Suzuki K Poulose (17):
>   coresight: trbe: Fix incorrect access of the sink specific data
>   coresight: trbe: Add infrastructure for Errata handling
>   coresight: trbe: Add a helper to calculate the trace generated
>   coresight: trbe: Add a helper to pad a given buffer area
>   coresight: trbe: Decouple buffer base from the hardware base
>   coresight: trbe: Allow driver to choose a different alignment
>   arm64: Add Neoverse-N2, Cortex-A710 CPU part definition
>   arm64: Add erratum detection for TRBE overwrite in FILL mode
>   coresight: trbe: Workaround TRBE errata overwrite in FILL mode
>   arm64: Enable workaround for TRBE overwrite in FILL mode
>   arm64: errata: Add workaround for TSB flush failures
>   coresight: trbe: Add a helper to fetch cpudata from perf handle
>   coresight: trbe: Add a helper to determine the minimum buffer size
>   coresight: trbe: Make sure we have enough space
>   arm64: Add erratum detection for TRBE write to out-of-range
>   coresight: trbe: Work around write to out of range
>   arm64: Advertise TRBE erratum workaround for write to out-of-range address
> 
>  Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.rst       |  12 +
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig                           | 109 ++++++
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h             |  16 +-
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h             |   4 +
>  arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c               |  64 ++++
>  arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps                     |   3 +
>  drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c | 339 +++++++++++++++++--
>  7 files changed, 510 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

Patches 04 to 11 and 13 to 17:

Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>

I am done reviewing this set.

Thanks,
Mathieu

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