This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
arm64: cpufeature: Fix CTR_EL0 field definitions
to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: arm64-cpufeature-fix-ctr_el0-field-definitions.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From be68a8aaf925aaf35574260bf820bb09d2f9e07f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 14:41:44 +0000 Subject: arm64: cpufeature: Fix CTR_EL0 field definitions
From: Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com
commit be68a8aaf925aaf35574260bf820bb09d2f9e07f upstream.
Our field definitions for CTR_EL0 suffer from a number of problems:
- The IDC and DIC fields are missing, which causes us to enable CTR trapping on CPUs with either of these returning non-zero values.
- The ERG is FTR_LOWER_SAFE, whereas it should be treated like CWG as FTR_HIGHER_SAFE so that applications can use it to avoid false sharing.
- [nit] A RES1 field is described as "RAO"
This patch updates the CTR_EL0 field definitions to fix these issues.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Shanker Donthineni shankerd@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas@arm.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c @@ -175,9 +175,11 @@ static const struct arm64_ftr_bits ftr_i };
static const struct arm64_ftr_bits ftr_ctr[] = { - ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_VISIBLE, FTR_STRICT, FTR_EXACT, 31, 1, 1), /* RAO */ + ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_VISIBLE, FTR_STRICT, FTR_EXACT, 31, 1, 1), /* RES1 */ + ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_VISIBLE, FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, 29, 1, 1), /* DIC */ + ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_VISIBLE, FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, 28, 1, 1), /* IDC */ ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_VISIBLE, FTR_STRICT, FTR_HIGHER_SAFE, 24, 4, 0), /* CWG */ - ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_VISIBLE, FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, 20, 4, 0), /* ERG */ + ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_VISIBLE, FTR_STRICT, FTR_HIGHER_SAFE, 20, 4, 0), /* ERG */ ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_VISIBLE, FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, 16, 4, 1), /* DminLine */ /* * Linux can handle differing I-cache policies. Userspace JITs will
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from will.deacon@arm.com are
queue-4.14/arm64-remove-unimplemented-syscall-log-message.patch queue-4.14/arm64-mm-don-t-write-garbage-into-ttbr1_el1-register.patch queue-4.14/arm64-disable-unhandled-signal-log-messages-by-default.patch queue-4.14/irqchip-gic-v3-use-wmb-instead-of-smb_wmb-in-gic_raise_softirq.patch queue-4.14/arm64-cpufeature-fix-ctr_el0-field-definitions.patch queue-4.14/kbuild-always-define-endianess-in-kconfig.h.patch