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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-10-22 17:30:06 +0100 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-10-22 17:30:06 +0100 |
commit | 528985117126f11beea339cf39120ee99da04cd2 (patch) | |
tree | 85c9f3b2211fccd7ebe27ca07f6a36b3df21a17e /Documentation | |
parent | 84df9525b0c27f3ebc2ebb1864fa62a97fdedb7d (diff) | |
parent | 4debef5510071032c6d5dace31ca1cc42a120073 (diff) | |
download | linux-528985117126f11beea339cf39120ee99da04cd2.tar.bz2 |
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.txt | 12 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/hugetlbpage.txt | 38 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt | 1 |
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 | |