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riscv: Disallow to build XIP_KERNEL with SOC_SIFIVE

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Alexandre Ghiti April 29, 2021, 8:45 a.m. UTC
RISCV_ERRATA_ALTERNATIVE patches text at runtime which is not possible when
the kernel is executed from the flash in XIP mode, and as the SIFIVE
errata must be fixed somehow, disallow to build a XIP kernel that
supports SIFIVE socs.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
---
 arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas | 2 +-
 arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs    | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Anup Patel April 29, 2021, 9:04 a.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 2:15 PM Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr> wrote:
>
> RISCV_ERRATA_ALTERNATIVE patches text at runtime which is not possible when
> the kernel is executed from the flash in XIP mode, and as the SIFIVE
> errata must be fixed somehow, disallow to build a XIP kernel that
> supports SIFIVE socs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
> ---
>  arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas | 2 +-
>  arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs    | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas
> index d5d03ae8d685..9537dbd67357 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas
> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas
> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ menu "CPU errata selection"
>
>  config RISCV_ERRATA_ALTERNATIVE
>         bool "RISC-V alternative scheme"
> -       default y
> +       default y if !XIP_KERNEL
>         help
>           This Kconfig allows the kernel to automatically patch the
>           errata required by the execution platform at run time. The
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs
> index 00c2b205654c..9cb38bc9d7cd 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs
> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs
> @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ config SOC_MICROCHIP_POLARFIRE
>
>  config SOC_SIFIVE
>         bool "SiFive SoCs"
> +       depends on !XIP_KERNEL

Does this mean that now all SOCs will have to explicitly say
"depends on !XIP_KERNEL"

How about adding "depends on !XIP_KERNEL" for RISCV_ERRATA_ALTERNATIVE ?

Regards,
Anup

>         select SERIAL_SIFIVE if TTY
>         select SERIAL_SIFIVE_CONSOLE if TTY
>         select CLK_SIFIVE
> --
> 2.20.1
>
Vitaly Wool April 29, 2021, 9:11 a.m. UTC | #2
On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 10:47 AM Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr> wrote:
>
> RISCV_ERRATA_ALTERNATIVE patches text at runtime which is not possible when
> the kernel is executed from the flash in XIP mode, and as the SIFIVE
> errata must be fixed somehow, disallow to build a XIP kernel that
> supports SIFIVE socs.

Could you please hold off this patch for a bit? I will try to come up
with an alternative solution. It should be possible to define a
special section within the RW area and place the functions that need
such patching there.
Not that I like that much but at least we'll keep the ability to use
XIP on SiFive.

Best regards,
   Vitaly

> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
> ---
>  arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas | 2 +-
>  arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs    | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas
> index d5d03ae8d685..9537dbd67357 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas
> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas
> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ menu "CPU errata selection"
>
>  config RISCV_ERRATA_ALTERNATIVE
>         bool "RISC-V alternative scheme"
> -       default y
> +       default y if !XIP_KERNEL
>         help
>           This Kconfig allows the kernel to automatically patch the
>           errata required by the execution platform at run time. The
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs
> index 00c2b205654c..9cb38bc9d7cd 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs
> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs
> @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ config SOC_MICROCHIP_POLARFIRE
>
>  config SOC_SIFIVE
>         bool "SiFive SoCs"
> +       depends on !XIP_KERNEL
>         select SERIAL_SIFIVE if TTY
>         select SERIAL_SIFIVE_CONSOLE if TTY
>         select CLK_SIFIVE
> --
> 2.20.1
>
>
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Alexandre Ghiti April 29, 2021, 12:13 p.m. UTC | #3
Le 4/29/21 à 5:11 AM, Vitaly Wool a écrit :
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 10:47 AM Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr> wrote:
>>
>> RISCV_ERRATA_ALTERNATIVE patches text at runtime which is not possible when
>> the kernel is executed from the flash in XIP mode, and as the SIFIVE
>> errata must be fixed somehow, disallow to build a XIP kernel that
>> supports SIFIVE socs.
> 
> Could you please hold off this patch for a bit? I will try to come up
> with an alternative solution. It should be possible to define a
> special section within the RW area and place the functions that need
> such patching there.
> Not that I like that much but at least we'll keep the ability to use
> XIP on SiFive.

Ok, I'm wondering why I did not think of that...I'll give it a try just 
to punish myself.

Thanks Vitaly,

Alex

> 
> Best regards,
>     Vitaly
> 
>> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
>> ---
>>   arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas | 2 +-
>>   arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs    | 1 +
>>   2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas
>> index d5d03ae8d685..9537dbd67357 100644
>> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas
>> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas
>> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ menu "CPU errata selection"
>>
>>   config RISCV_ERRATA_ALTERNATIVE
>>          bool "RISC-V alternative scheme"
>> -       default y
>> +       default y if !XIP_KERNEL
>>          help
>>            This Kconfig allows the kernel to automatically patch the
>>            errata required by the execution platform at run time. The
>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs
>> index 00c2b205654c..9cb38bc9d7cd 100644
>> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs
>> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs
>> @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ config SOC_MICROCHIP_POLARFIRE
>>
>>   config SOC_SIFIVE
>>          bool "SiFive SoCs"
>> +       depends on !XIP_KERNEL
>>          select SERIAL_SIFIVE if TTY
>>          select SERIAL_SIFIVE_CONSOLE if TTY
>>          select CLK_SIFIVE
>> --
>> 2.20.1
>>
>>
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Alexandre Ghiti April 29, 2021, 12:17 p.m. UTC | #4
Le 4/29/21 à 5:04 AM, Anup Patel a écrit :
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 2:15 PM Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr> wrote:
>>
>> RISCV_ERRATA_ALTERNATIVE patches text at runtime which is not possible when
>> the kernel is executed from the flash in XIP mode, and as the SIFIVE
>> errata must be fixed somehow, disallow to build a XIP kernel that
>> supports SIFIVE socs.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
>> ---
>>   arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas | 2 +-
>>   arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs    | 1 +
>>   2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas
>> index d5d03ae8d685..9537dbd67357 100644
>> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas
>> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas
>> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ menu "CPU errata selection"
>>
>>   config RISCV_ERRATA_ALTERNATIVE
>>          bool "RISC-V alternative scheme"
>> -       default y
>> +       default y if !XIP_KERNEL
>>          help
>>            This Kconfig allows the kernel to automatically patch the
>>            errata required by the execution platform at run time. The
>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs
>> index 00c2b205654c..9cb38bc9d7cd 100644
>> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs
>> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs
>> @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ config SOC_MICROCHIP_POLARFIRE
>>
>>   config SOC_SIFIVE
>>          bool "SiFive SoCs"
>> +       depends on !XIP_KERNEL
> 
> Does this mean that now all SOCs will have to explicitly say
> "depends on !XIP_KERNEL"
>  > How about adding "depends on !XIP_KERNEL" for RISCV_ERRATA_ALTERNATIVE ?

In any case, I had to add this because I could not get rid of the 
following warnings:

WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for ERRATA_SIFIVE
   Depends on [n]: RISCV_ERRATA_ALTERNATIVE [=n]
   Selected by [y]:
   - SOC_SIFIVE [=y]

If you have a solution for that, without touching any SOC_* config, I'll 
take it.

I'll try to implement what Vitaly proposed as it sounds way better than 
this "bandage" patch.

Thanks Anup,

Alex

> 
> Regards,
> Anup
> 
>>          select SERIAL_SIFIVE if TTY
>>          select SERIAL_SIFIVE_CONSOLE if TTY
>>          select CLK_SIFIVE
>> --
>> 2.20.1
>>
> 
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Alexandre Ghiti April 30, 2021, 8:09 a.m. UTC | #5
Le 4/29/21 à 8:13 AM, Alex Ghiti a écrit :
> Le 4/29/21 à 5:11 AM, Vitaly Wool a écrit :
>> On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 10:47 AM Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>> RISCV_ERRATA_ALTERNATIVE patches text at runtime which is not 
>>> possible when
>>> the kernel is executed from the flash in XIP mode, and as the SIFIVE
>>> errata must be fixed somehow, disallow to build a XIP kernel that
>>> supports SIFIVE socs.
>>
>> Could you please hold off this patch for a bit? I will try to come up
>> with an alternative solution. It should be possible to define a
>> special section within the RW area and place the functions that need
>> such patching there.
>> Not that I like that much but at least we'll keep the ability to use
>> XIP on SiFive.
> 
> Ok, I'm wondering why I did not think of that...I'll give it a try just 
> to punish myself.
> 
> Thanks Vitaly,
> 
> Alex
> 

I tried what you proposed and it works well, *callers* must be placed 
into this writable section in RAM and that's it, that may be more 
complicated if at some point the patched functions are generic but I 
think we can use an intermediate riscv function to patch instead or 
something else.

The modifications I did only consist in putting alternative section in 
RAM and place the exception vector table in this section.

If you can do the proper patch, I'll let you do it, otherwise I'll do 
that later as I have other things to do before.

So Palmer you can drop this patch.

Thanks again,

>>
>> Best regards,
>>     Vitaly
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
>>> ---
>>>   arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas | 2 +-
>>>   arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs    | 1 +
>>>   2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas
>>> index d5d03ae8d685..9537dbd67357 100644
>>> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas
>>> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas
>>> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ menu "CPU errata selection"
>>>
>>>   config RISCV_ERRATA_ALTERNATIVE
>>>          bool "RISC-V alternative scheme"
>>> -       default y
>>> +       default y if !XIP_KERNEL
>>>          help
>>>            This Kconfig allows the kernel to automatically patch the
>>>            errata required by the execution platform at run time. The
>>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs
>>> index 00c2b205654c..9cb38bc9d7cd 100644
>>> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs
>>> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs
>>> @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ config SOC_MICROCHIP_POLARFIRE
>>>
>>>   config SOC_SIFIVE
>>>          bool "SiFive SoCs"
>>> +       depends on !XIP_KERNEL
>>>          select SERIAL_SIFIVE if TTY
>>>          select SERIAL_SIFIVE_CONSOLE if TTY
>>>          select CLK_SIFIVE
>>> -- 
>>> 2.20.1
>>>
>>>
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>>> linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
>>> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-riscv
>>
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Palmer Dabbelt April 30, 2021, 7:47 p.m. UTC | #6
On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 01:09:14 PDT (-0700), alex@ghiti.fr wrote:
> Le 4/29/21 à 8:13 AM, Alex Ghiti a écrit :
>> Le 4/29/21 à 5:11 AM, Vitaly Wool a écrit :
>>> On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 10:47 AM Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> RISCV_ERRATA_ALTERNATIVE patches text at runtime which is not
>>>> possible when
>>>> the kernel is executed from the flash in XIP mode, and as the SIFIVE
>>>> errata must be fixed somehow, disallow to build a XIP kernel that
>>>> supports SIFIVE socs.
>>>
>>> Could you please hold off this patch for a bit? I will try to come up
>>> with an alternative solution. It should be possible to define a
>>> special section within the RW area and place the functions that need
>>> such patching there.
>>> Not that I like that much but at least we'll keep the ability to use
>>> XIP on SiFive.
>>
>> Ok, I'm wondering why I did not think of that...I'll give it a try just
>> to punish myself.
>>
>> Thanks Vitaly,
>>
>> Alex
>>
>
> I tried what you proposed and it works well, *callers* must be placed
> into this writable section in RAM and that's it, that may be more
> complicated if at some point the patched functions are generic but I
> think we can use an intermediate riscv function to patch instead or
> something else.
>
> The modifications I did only consist in putting alternative section in
> RAM and place the exception vector table in this section.
>
> If you can do the proper patch, I'll let you do it, otherwise I'll do
> that later as I have other things to do before.
>
> So Palmer you can drop this patch.

Great.  I was going to push back and just say "we should swap the 
alternatives over to the errata implemnetation for XIP, as the current 
ones are just a performance hit when unnecessary and XIP users are 
likely to build for a single SOC anyway".  That would mean we'd need to 
sort something out WRT errata that rely on design-specific 
functionality, and everything I came up with there was a headache.

It's way better if we can just full support the alternatives stuff, so 
I'll just wait for that.

>
> Thanks again,
>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>     Vitaly
>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
>>>> ---
>>>>   arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas | 2 +-
>>>>   arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs    | 1 +
>>>>   2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas
>>>> index d5d03ae8d685..9537dbd67357 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas
>>>> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas
>>>> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ menu "CPU errata selection"
>>>>
>>>>   config RISCV_ERRATA_ALTERNATIVE
>>>>          bool "RISC-V alternative scheme"
>>>> -       default y
>>>> +       default y if !XIP_KERNEL
>>>>          help
>>>>            This Kconfig allows the kernel to automatically patch the
>>>>            errata required by the execution platform at run time. The
>>>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs
>>>> index 00c2b205654c..9cb38bc9d7cd 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs
>>>> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs
>>>> @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ config SOC_MICROCHIP_POLARFIRE
>>>>
>>>>   config SOC_SIFIVE
>>>>          bool "SiFive SoCs"
>>>> +       depends on !XIP_KERNEL
>>>>          select SERIAL_SIFIVE if TTY
>>>>          select SERIAL_SIFIVE_CONSOLE if TTY
>>>>          select CLK_SIFIVE
>>>> --
>>>> 2.20.1
>>>>
>>>>
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Patch

diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas
index d5d03ae8d685..9537dbd67357 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas
+++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@  menu "CPU errata selection"
 
 config RISCV_ERRATA_ALTERNATIVE
 	bool "RISC-V alternative scheme"
-	default y
+	default y if !XIP_KERNEL
 	help
 	  This Kconfig allows the kernel to automatically patch the
 	  errata required by the execution platform at run time. The
diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs
index 00c2b205654c..9cb38bc9d7cd 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs
+++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@  config SOC_MICROCHIP_POLARFIRE
 
 config SOC_SIFIVE
 	bool "SiFive SoCs"
+	depends on !XIP_KERNEL
 	select SERIAL_SIFIVE if TTY
 	select SERIAL_SIFIVE_CONSOLE if TTY
 	select CLK_SIFIVE