riscv: Introduce alternative mechanism to apply errata solution
authorVincent Chen <vincent.chen@sifive.com>
Mon, 22 Mar 2021 14:26:03 +0000 (22:26 +0800)
committerPalmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
Mon, 26 Apr 2021 15:24:55 +0000 (08:24 -0700)
commit6f4eea90465ad0cd5f3d041b9b2c728426f2b8d4
tree7a7f210cfc5003dd70c0fba9e100cb7a8efea5df
parent183787c6fcc2c793ec96e946a4fdd8cd0e6d7aa0
riscv: Introduce alternative mechanism to apply errata solution

Introduce the "alternative" mechanism from ARM64 and x86 to apply the CPU
vendors' errata solution at runtime. The main purpose of this patch is
to provide a framework. Therefore, the implementation is quite basic for
now so that some scenarios could not use this schemei, such as patching
code to a module, relocating the patching code and heterogeneous CPU
topology.

Users could use the macro ALTERNATIVE to apply an errata to the existing
code flow. In the macro ALTERNATIVE, users need to specify the manufacturer
information(vendorid, archid, and impid) for this errata. Therefore, kernel
will know this errata is suitable for which CPU core. During the booting
procedure, kernel will select the errata required by the CPU core and then
patch it. It means that the kernel only applies the errata to the specified
CPU core. In this case, the vendor's errata does not affect each other at
runtime. The above patching procedure only occurs during the booting phase,
so we only take the overhead of the "alternative" mechanism once.

This "alternative" mechanism is enabled by default to ensure that all
required errata will be applied. However, users can disable this feature by
the Kconfig "CONFIG_RISCV_ERRATA_ALTERNATIVE".

Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen <vincent.chen@sifive.com>
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
14 files changed:
arch/riscv/Kconfig
arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/riscv/Makefile
arch/riscv/errata/Makefile [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/riscv/errata/alternative.c [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/riscv/include/asm/alternative-macros.h [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/riscv/include/asm/alternative.h [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/riscv/include/asm/asm.h
arch/riscv/include/asm/csr.h
arch/riscv/include/asm/errata_list.h [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/riscv/include/asm/sections.h
arch/riscv/include/asm/vendorid_list.h [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c
arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S