Svpbmt (the S should be capitalized) is the
"Supervisor-mode: page-based memory types" extension
that specifies attributes for cacheability, idempotency
and ordering.
The relevant settings are done in special bits in PTEs:
Here is the svpbmt PTE format:
| 63 | 62-61 | 60-8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0
N MT RSW D A G U X W R V
^
Of the Reserved bits [63:54] in a leaf PTE, the high bit is already
allocated (as the N bit), so bits [62:61] are used as the MT (aka
MemType) field. This field specifies one of three memory types that
are close equivalents (or equivalent in effect) to the three main x86
and ARMv8 memory types - as shown in the following table.
RISC-V
Encoding &
MemType RISC-V Description
---------- ------------------------------------------------
00 - PMA Normal Cacheable, No change to implied PMA memory type
01 - NC Non-cacheable, idempotent, weakly-ordered Main Memory
10 - IO Non-cacheable, non-idempotent, strongly-ordered I/O memory
11 - Rsvd Reserved for future standard use
As the extension will not be present on all implementations,
implement a method to handle cpufeatures via alternatives
to not incur runtime penalties on cpu variants not supporting
specific extensions and patch relevant code parts at runtime.
Co-developed-by: Wei Fu <wefu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Wei Fu <wefu@redhat.com>
Co-developed-by: Liu Shaohua <liush@allwinnertech.com>
Signed-off-by: Liu Shaohua <liush@allwinnertech.com>
Co-developed-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
[moved to use the alternatives mechanism]
Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Reviewed-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich@vrull.eu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220511192921.2223629-10-heiko@sntech.de
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Add sign extension to the $badaddr before addressing the instruction page
fault and instruction access fault to workaround the issue "cip-453".
To avoid affecting the existing code sequence, this patch will creates two
trampolines to add sign extension to the $badaddr. By the "alternative"
mechanism, these two trampolines will replace the original exception
handler of instruction page fault and instruction access fault in the
excp_vect_table. In this case, only the specific SiFive CPU core jumps to
the do_page_fault and do_trap_insn_fault through these two trampolines.
Other CPUs are not affected.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen <vincent.chen@sifive.com>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
Introduce the "alternative" mechanism from ARM64 and x86 to apply the CPU
vendors' errata solution at runtime. The main purpose of this patch is
to provide a framework. Therefore, the implementation is quite basic for
now so that some scenarios could not use this schemei, such as patching
code to a module, relocating the patching code and heterogeneous CPU
topology.
Users could use the macro ALTERNATIVE to apply an errata to the existing
code flow. In the macro ALTERNATIVE, users need to specify the manufacturer
information(vendorid, archid, and impid) for this errata. Therefore, kernel
will know this errata is suitable for which CPU core. During the booting
procedure, kernel will select the errata required by the CPU core and then
patch it. It means that the kernel only applies the errata to the specified
CPU core. In this case, the vendor's errata does not affect each other at
runtime. The above patching procedure only occurs during the booting phase,
so we only take the overhead of the "alternative" mechanism once.
This "alternative" mechanism is enabled by default to ensure that all
required errata will be applied. However, users can disable this feature by
the Kconfig "CONFIG_RISCV_ERRATA_ALTERNATIVE".
Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen <vincent.chen@sifive.com>
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
