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Shanker Donthineni 3060e9f0d1 arm64: Add software workaround for Falkor erratum 1041
The ARM architecture defines the memory locations that are permitted
to be accessed as the result of a speculative instruction fetch from
an exception level for which all stages of translation are disabled.
Specifically, the core is permitted to speculatively fetch from the
4KB region containing the current program counter 4K and next 4K.

When translation is changed from enabled to disabled for the running
exception level (SCTLR_ELn[M] changed from a value of 1 to 0), the
Falkor core may errantly speculatively access memory locations outside
of the 4KB region permitted by the architecture. The errant memory
access may lead to one of the following unexpected behaviors.

1) A System Error Interrupt (SEI) being raised by the Falkor core due
   to the errant memory access attempting to access a region of memory
   that is protected by a slave-side memory protection unit.
2) Unpredictable device behavior due to a speculative read from device
   memory. This behavior may only occur if the instruction cache is
   disabled prior to or coincident with translation being changed from
   enabled to disabled.

The conditions leading to this erratum will not occur when either of the
following occur:
 1) A higher exception level disables translation of a lower exception level
   (e.g. EL2 changing SCTLR_EL1[M] from a value of 1 to 0).
 2) An exception level disabling its stage-1 translation if its stage-2
    translation is enabled (e.g. EL1 changing SCTLR_EL1[M] from a value of 1
    to 0 when HCR_EL2[VM] has a value of 1).

To avoid the errant behavior, software must execute an ISB immediately
prior to executing the MSR that will change SCTLR_ELn[M] from 1 to 0.

Signed-off-by: Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2018-02-06 22:53:13 +00:00
arch arm64: Add software workaround for Falkor erratum 1041 2018-02-06 22:53:13 +00:00
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-12-01 08:05:45 -05:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto X.509: fix comparisons of ->pkey_algo 2017-12-08 15:13:29 +00:00
Documentation arm64: Add software workaround for Falkor erratum 1041 2018-02-06 22:53:13 +00:00
drivers firmware: arm_sdei: Fix return value check in sdei_present_dt() 2018-01-15 18:16:59 +00:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs hpfs: don't bother with the i_version counter or f_version 2017-12-10 12:58:18 -08:00
include arm64: acpi: Remove __init from acpi_psci_use_hvc() for use by SDEI 2018-01-14 18:49:49 +00:00
init EXPERT Kconfig menu: fix broken EXPERT menu 2017-11-17 16:10:05 -08:00
ipc Rename superblock flags (MS_xyz -> SB_xyz) 2017-11-27 13:05:09 -08:00
kernel perf: Export perf_event_update_userpage 2018-01-02 16:43:12 +00:00
lib Keyrings fixes 2017-12-09 14:39:48 +11:00
mm kmemcheck: rip it out for real 2017-12-08 13:40:17 -08:00
net tcp: evaluate packet losses upon RTT change 2017-12-08 14:14:11 -05:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 2017-12-03 13:08:30 -05:00
scripts A handful of documentation fixes. The most significant of these addresses 2017-12-04 13:55:28 -08:00
security KEYS: reject NULL restriction string when type is specified 2017-12-08 15:13:29 +00:00
sound sound fixes for 4.15-rc3 2017-12-06 10:49:14 -08:00
tools kmemcheck: rip it out for real 2017-12-08 13:40:17 -08:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt KVM: arm64: Handle RAS SErrors from EL1 on guest exit 2018-01-16 15:09:13 +00:00
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MAINTAINERS firmware: arm_sdei: Add driver for Software Delegated Exceptions 2018-01-13 10:44:56 +00:00
Makefile Linux 4.15-rc3 2017-12-10 17:56:26 -08:00
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Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.