Re: [PATCH 1/3] arm64: Track system support for mixed endian EL0

From: Suzuki K. Poulose
Date: Mon Jan 19 2015 - 04:41:47 EST


On 16/01/15 16:15, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
On 16/01/15 15:53, Will Deacon wrote:
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:36:04PM +0000, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
From: "Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>

This patch keeps track of the mixed endian EL0 support across
the system and provides helper functions to export it. The status
is a boolean indicating whether all the CPUs on the system supports
mixed endian at EL0.

Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 10 ++++++++++
arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 32 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
index 07547cc..c7f68d1 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@

#define ARM64_NCAPS 2

+#define ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1_BigEndEL0 (0x1UL << 16)
+#define ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1_BigEnd (0x1UL << 8)

I don't like the CaMeLcAsE. Also, perhaps these definitions should be
somewhere like cputype.h?
Yeah, I tried to keep it aligned withe ARMv8 architecture definition of
those bits. Will change it.
Things are a bit messy w.r.t the definitions. We have cpu.h,
cpufeature.h and cputype.h. I could move it to cputype.h, where we
already have MIDR_ defintions.


+
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__

extern DECLARE_BITMAP(cpu_hwcaps, ARM64_NCAPS);
@@ -51,7 +54,14 @@ static inline void cpus_set_cap(unsigned int num)
__set_bit(num, cpu_hwcaps);
}

+static inline bool id_aa64mmfr0_mixed_endian_el0(unsigned long mmfr0)
+{
+ return !!(mmfr0 & (ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1_BigEndEL0 | ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1_BigEnd));
+}

These are 4-bit fields and I think you think you should be treating them
as such.
OK


+
void check_local_cpu_errata(void);
+bool system_supports_mixed_endian_el0(void);
+bool cpu_supports_mixed_endian_el0(void);

#endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c
index 07d435c..b6d1135 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
*/
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpuinfo_arm64, cpu_data);
static struct cpuinfo_arm64 boot_cpu_data;
+static bool mixed_endian_el0 = true;

static char *icache_policy_str[] = {
[ICACHE_POLICY_RESERVED] = "RESERVED/UNKNOWN",
@@ -68,6 +69,26 @@ static void cpuinfo_detect_icache_policy(struct cpuinfo_arm64 *info)
pr_info("Detected %s I-cache on CPU%d\n", icache_policy_str[l1ip], cpu);
}

+bool cpu_supports_mixed_endian_el0(void)
+{
+ return id_aa64mmfr0_mixed_endian_el0(read_cpuid(ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1));
+}

Can we not just define a mask/value pair and have code do the MMFR0 access
inline? It also feels a bit over-engineered like this.
Sure, will change this.

On a second thought, we need the id_aa64mmfr0_mixed_endian_el0() for another code path. For a new CPU detected at boot time via cpuinfo_store_cpu(), where we get the 'filled' cpuinfo_arm64 which already has the id_aa64mmfr0. So we do:

+
+static void update_mixed_endian_el0_support(struct cpuinfo_arm64 *info)
+{
+ mixed_endian_el0 &= id_aa64mmfr0_mixed_endian_el0(info->reg_id_aa64mmfr0);
+}

So, having a helper to extract the support from the id_aa64mmfr0 makes it a bit more ordered.

But yes, we could switch to mask/value pair.

Thanks
Suzuki

Thanks
Suzuki

Will



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