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[1/2] arm64: consolidate context ID for 8-bit ASIDs

Message ID 20160617173300.4767-1-jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Jean-Philippe Brucker June 17, 2016, 5:32 p.m. UTC
When a CPU uses 8 bits of ASID, software should write the top 8 bits of
TTB registers and TLBI commands as 0. Currently, we put the generation
field right above the ASIDs, which leads to writing it into TTB and TLBIs.
Hardware is supposed to always ignore those bits, but we shouldn't rely on
that.

Always use bits [63:16] of context.id for the generation number, and keep
bits [15:8] as zero when using 8-bit ASIDs.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/mm/context.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Will Deacon June 20, 2016, 8:28 a.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 06:32:59PM +0100, Jean-Philippe Brucker wrote:
> When a CPU uses 8 bits of ASID, software should write the top 8 bits of
> TTB registers and TLBI commands as 0. Currently, we put the generation
> field right above the ASIDs, which leads to writing it into TTB and TLBIs.
> Hardware is supposed to always ignore those bits, but we shouldn't rely on
> that.

Actually, I think we can rely on this. The ARM ARM has a special exception
for ASID size (there are some pending changes to this text that appear to
be inconsequential to this discussion):

  ASID size

  [...]

  When the value of TCR_EL1.AS is 0, ASID[15:8] ... Are ignored by hardware
  for every purpose other than reads of ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1.

Will
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/context.c b/arch/arm64/mm/context.c
index b7b3978..090bf88 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/context.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/context.c
@@ -38,8 +38,9 @@  static DEFINE_PER_CPU(u64, reserved_asids);
 static cpumask_t tlb_flush_pending;
 
 #define ASID_MASK		(~GENMASK(asid_bits - 1, 0))
-#define ASID_FIRST_VERSION	(1UL << asid_bits)
-#define NUM_USER_ASIDS		ASID_FIRST_VERSION
+#define GENERATION_SHIFT	16
+#define ASID_FIRST_VERSION	(1UL << GENERATION_SHIFT)
+#define NUM_USER_ASIDS		(1UL << asid_bits)
 
 /* Get the ASIDBits supported by the current CPU */
 static u32 get_cpu_asid_bits(void)