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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-10-22 17:30:06 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-10-22 17:30:06 +0100
commit528985117126f11beea339cf39120ee99da04cd2 (patch)
tree85c9f3b2211fccd7ebe27ca07f6a36b3df21a17e /Documentation
parent84df9525b0c27f3ebc2ebb1864fa62a97fdedb7d (diff)
parent4debef5510071032c6d5dace31ca1cc42a120073 (diff)
Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux
Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas: "Apart from some new arm64 features and clean-ups, this also contains the core mmu_gather changes for tracking the levels of the page table being cleared and a minor update to the generic compat_sys_sigaltstack() introducing COMPAT_SIGMINSKSZ. Summary: - Core mmu_gather changes which allow tracking the levels of page-table being cleared together with the arm64 low-level flushing routines - Support for the new ARMv8.5 PSTATE.SSBS bit which can be used to mitigate Spectre-v4 dynamically without trapping to EL3 firmware - Introduce COMPAT_SIGMINSTKSZ for use in compat_sys_sigaltstack - Optimise emulation of MRS instructions to ID_* registers on ARMv8.4 - Support for Common Not Private (CnP) translations allowing threads of the same CPU to share the TLB entries - Accelerated crc32 routines - Move swapper_pg_dir to the rodata section - Trap WFI instruction executed in user space - ARM erratum 1188874 workaround (arch_timer) - Miscellaneous fixes and clean-ups" * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (78 commits) arm64: KVM: Guests can skip __install_bp_hardening_cb()s HYP work arm64: cpufeature: Trap CTR_EL0 access only where it is necessary arm64: cpufeature: Fix handling of CTR_EL0.IDC field arm64: cpufeature: ctr: Fix cpu capability check for late CPUs Documentation/arm64: HugeTLB page implementation arm64: mm: Use __pa_symbol() for set_swapper_pgd() arm64: Add silicon-errata.txt entry for ARM erratum 1188873 Revert "arm64: uaccess: implement unsafe accessors" arm64: mm: Drop the unused cpu parameter MAINTAINERS: fix bad sdei paths arm64: mm: Use #ifdef for the __PAGETABLE_P?D_FOLDED defines arm64: Fix typo in a comment in arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c arm64: xen: Use existing helper to check interrupt status arm64: Use daifflag_restore after bp_hardening arm64: daifflags: Use irqflags functions for daifflags arm64: arch_timer: avoid unused function warning arm64: Trap WFI executed in userspace arm64: docs: Document SSBS HWCAP arm64: docs: Fix typos in ELF hwcaps arm64/kprobes: remove an extra semicolon in arch_prepare_kprobe ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm64/hugetlbpage.txt38
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt1
3 files changed, 47 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt b/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt
index d6aff2c5e9e2..ea819ae024dd 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt
@@ -78,11 +78,11 @@ HWCAP_EVTSTRM
HWCAP_AES
- Functionality implied by ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1.AES == 0b0001.
+ Functionality implied by ID_AA64ISAR0_EL1.AES == 0b0001.
HWCAP_PMULL
- Functionality implied by ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1.AES == 0b0010.
+ Functionality implied by ID_AA64ISAR0_EL1.AES == 0b0010.
HWCAP_SHA1
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ HWCAP_ASIMDDP
HWCAP_SHA512
- Functionality implied by ID_AA64ISAR0_EL1.SHA2 == 0b0002.
+ Functionality implied by ID_AA64ISAR0_EL1.SHA2 == 0b0010.
HWCAP_SVE
@@ -173,8 +173,12 @@ HWCAP_USCAT
HWCAP_ILRCPC
- Functionality implied by ID_AA64ISR1_EL1.LRCPC == 0b0002.
+ Functionality implied by ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1.LRCPC == 0b0010.
HWCAP_FLAGM
Functionality implied by ID_AA64ISAR0_EL1.TS == 0b0001.
+
+HWCAP_SSBS
+
+ Functionality implied by ID_AA64PFR1_EL1.SSBS == 0b0010.
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/hugetlbpage.txt b/Documentation/arm64/hugetlbpage.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..cfae87dc653b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/hugetlbpage.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+HugeTLBpage on ARM64
+====================
+
+Hugepage relies on making efficient use of TLBs to improve performance of
+address translations. The benefit depends on both -
+
+ - the size of hugepages
+ - size of entries supported by the TLBs
+
+The ARM64 port supports two flavours of hugepages.
+
+1) Block mappings at the pud/pmd level
+--------------------------------------
+
+These are regular hugepages where a pmd or a pud page table entry points to a
+block of memory. Regardless of the supported size of entries in TLB, block
+mappings reduce the depth of page table walk needed to translate hugepage
+addresses.
+
+2) Using the Contiguous bit
+---------------------------
+
+The architecture provides a contiguous bit in the translation table entries
+(D4.5.3, ARM DDI 0487C.a) that hints to the MMU to indicate that it is one of a
+contiguous set of entries that can be cached in a single TLB entry.
+
+The contiguous bit is used in Linux to increase the mapping size at the pmd and
+pte (last) level. The number of supported contiguous entries varies by page size
+and level of the page table.
+
+
+The following hugepage sizes are supported -
+
+ CONT PTE PMD CONT PMD PUD
+ -------- --- -------- ---
+ 4K: 64K 2M 32M 1G
+ 16K: 2M 32M 1G
+ 64K: 2M 512M 16G
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt b/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt
index 3b2f2dd82225..76ccded8b74c 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ stable kernels.
| ARM | Cortex-A72 | #853709 | N/A |
| ARM | Cortex-A73 | #858921 | ARM64_ERRATUM_858921 |
| ARM | Cortex-A55 | #1024718 | ARM64_ERRATUM_1024718 |
+| ARM | Cortex-A76 | #1188873 | ARM64_ERRATUM_1188873 |
| ARM | MMU-500 | #841119,#826419 | N/A |
| | | | |
| Cavium | ThunderX ITS | #22375, #24313 | CAVIUM_ERRATUM_22375 |