On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 5:24 PM, Nishanth Menon nm@ti.com wrote:
As recommended by Arm in [1], ACTLR[0] (Enable invalidates of BTB) needs to be set[2] for BTB to be invalidated on ICIALLU. This needs to be done unconditionally for Cortex-A15 processors. Provide a config option for platforms to enable this option based on impact analysis for products.
NOTE: This patch in itself is NOT the final solution, this requires: a) Implementation of v7_arch_cp15_set_acr on SoCs which may not provide direct access to ACR register. b) Operating Systems such as Linux to provide adequate workaround in the right locations. c) This workaround applies to only the boot processor. It is important to apply workaround as necessary (context-save-restore) around low power context loss OR additional processors as necessary in either firmware support OR elsewhere in OS.
[1] https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update [2] http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ddi0438c/BABGHIBG.html
Cc: Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com Cc: Russell King linux@arm.linux.org.uk Cc: Tony Lindgren tony@atomide.com Cc: Robin Murphy robin.murphy@arm.com Cc: Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com Cc: Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas@arm.com Cc: Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com Cc: Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall@linaro.org Cc: Andre Przywara Andre.Przywara@arm.com Cc: Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org Cc: Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com Cc: Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi michael@amarulasolutions.com
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon nm@ti.com
On a imx51-babbage board:
Tested-by: Fabio Estevam fabio.estevam@nxp.com