linux/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt
Linus Torvalds 7af8a0f808 arm64 updates for 4.9:
- Support for execute-only page permissions
 - Support for hibernate and DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
 - Support for heterogeneous systems with mismatches cache line sizes
 - Errata workarounds (A53 843419 update and QorIQ A-008585 timer bug)
 - arm64 PMU perf updates, including cpumasks for heterogeneous systems
 - Set UTS_MACHINE for building rpm packages
 - Yet another head.S tidy-up
 - Some cleanups and refactoring, particularly in the NUMA code
 - Lots of random, non-critical fixes across the board
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Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux

Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "It's a bit all over the place this time with no "killer feature" to
  speak of.  Support for mismatched cache line sizes should help people
  seeing whacky JIT failures on some SoCs, and the big.LITTLE perf
  updates have been a long time coming, but a lot of the changes here
  are cleanups.

  We stray outside arch/arm64 in a few areas: the arch/arm/ arch_timer
  workaround is acked by Russell, the DT/OF bits are acked by Rob, the
  arch_timer clocksource changes acked by Marc, CPU hotplug by tglx and
  jump_label by Peter (all CC'd).

  Summary:

   - Support for execute-only page permissions
   - Support for hibernate and DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
   - Support for heterogeneous systems with mismatches cache line sizes
   - Errata workarounds (A53 843419 update and QorIQ A-008585 timer bug)
   - arm64 PMU perf updates, including cpumasks for heterogeneous systems
   - Set UTS_MACHINE for building rpm packages
   - Yet another head.S tidy-up
   - Some cleanups and refactoring, particularly in the NUMA code
   - Lots of random, non-critical fixes across the board"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (100 commits)
  arm64: tlbflush.h: add __tlbi() macro
  arm64: Kconfig: remove SMP dependence for NUMA
  arm64: Kconfig: select OF/ACPI_NUMA under NUMA config
  arm64: fix dump_backtrace/unwind_frame with NULL tsk
  arm/arm64: arch_timer: Use archdata to indicate vdso suitability
  arm64: arch_timer: Work around QorIQ Erratum A-008585
  arm64: arch_timer: Add device tree binding for A-008585 erratum
  arm64: Correctly bounds check virt_addr_valid
  arm64: migrate exception table users off module.h and onto extable.h
  arm64: pmu: Hoist pmu platform device name
  arm64: pmu: Probe default hw/cache counters
  arm64: pmu: add fallback probe table
  MAINTAINERS: Update ARM PMU PROFILING AND DEBUGGING entry
  arm64: Improve kprobes test for atomic sequence
  arm64/kvm: use alternative auto-nop
  arm64: use alternative auto-nop
  arm64: alternative: add auto-nop infrastructure
  arm64: lse: convert lse alternatives NOP padding to use __nops
  arm64: barriers: introduce nops and __nops macros for NOP sequences
  arm64: sysreg: replace open-coded mrs_s/msr_s with {read,write}_sysreg_s
  ...
2016-10-03 08:58:35 -07:00

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Silicon Errata and Software Workarounds
=======================================
Author: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Date : 27 November 2015
It is an unfortunate fact of life that hardware is often produced with
so-called "errata", which can cause it to deviate from the architecture
under specific circumstances. For hardware produced by ARM, these
errata are broadly classified into the following categories:
Category A: A critical error without a viable workaround.
Category B: A significant or critical error with an acceptable
workaround.
Category C: A minor error that is not expected to occur under normal
operation.
For more information, consult one of the "Software Developers Errata
Notice" documents available on infocenter.arm.com (registration
required).
As far as Linux is concerned, Category B errata may require some special
treatment in the operating system. For example, avoiding a particular
sequence of code, or configuring the processor in a particular way. A
less common situation may require similar actions in order to declassify
a Category A erratum into a Category C erratum. These are collectively
known as "software workarounds" and are only required in the minority of
cases (e.g. those cases that both require a non-secure workaround *and*
can be triggered by Linux).
For software workarounds that may adversely impact systems unaffected by
the erratum in question, a Kconfig entry is added under "Kernel
Features" -> "ARM errata workarounds via the alternatives framework".
These are enabled by default and patched in at runtime when an affected
CPU is detected. For less-intrusive workarounds, a Kconfig option is not
available and the code is structured (preferably with a comment) in such
a way that the erratum will not be hit.
This approach can make it slightly onerous to determine exactly which
errata are worked around in an arbitrary kernel source tree, so this
file acts as a registry of software workarounds in the Linux Kernel and
will be updated when new workarounds are committed and backported to
stable kernels.
| Implementor | Component | Erratum ID | Kconfig |
+----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-------------------------+
| ARM | Cortex-A53 | #826319 | ARM64_ERRATUM_826319 |
| ARM | Cortex-A53 | #827319 | ARM64_ERRATUM_827319 |
| ARM | Cortex-A53 | #824069 | ARM64_ERRATUM_824069 |
| ARM | Cortex-A53 | #819472 | ARM64_ERRATUM_819472 |
| ARM | Cortex-A53 | #845719 | ARM64_ERRATUM_845719 |
| ARM | Cortex-A53 | #843419 | ARM64_ERRATUM_843419 |
| ARM | Cortex-A57 | #832075 | ARM64_ERRATUM_832075 |
| ARM | Cortex-A57 | #852523 | N/A |
| ARM | Cortex-A57 | #834220 | ARM64_ERRATUM_834220 |
| ARM | Cortex-A72 | #853709 | N/A |
| ARM | MMU-500 | #841119,#826419 | N/A |
| | | | |
| Cavium | ThunderX ITS | #22375, #24313 | CAVIUM_ERRATUM_22375 |
| Cavium | ThunderX ITS | #23144 | CAVIUM_ERRATUM_23144 |
| Cavium | ThunderX GICv3 | #23154 | CAVIUM_ERRATUM_23154 |
| Cavium | ThunderX Core | #27456 | CAVIUM_ERRATUM_27456 |
| Cavium | ThunderX SMMUv2 | #27704 | N/A |
| | | | |
| Freescale/NXP | LS2080A/LS1043A | A-008585 | FSL_ERRATUM_A008585 |