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Mark Rutland 8bf0a8048b arm64: add ARM64_HAS_GIC_PRIO_RELAXED_SYNC cpucap 
When Priority Mask Hint Enable (PMHE) == 0b1, the GIC may use the PMR
value to determine whether to signal an IRQ to a PE, and consequently
after a change to the PMR value, a DSB SY may be required to ensure that
interrupts are signalled to a CPU in finite time. When PMHE == 0b0,
interrupts are always signalled to the relevant PE, and all masking
occurs locally, without requiring a DSB SY.

Since commit:

  f226650494 ("arm64: Relax ICC_PMR_EL1 accesses when ICC_CTLR_EL1.PMHE is clear")

... we handle this dynamically: in most cases a static key is used to
determine whether to issue a DSB SY, but the entry code must read from
ICC_CTLR_EL1 as static keys aren't accessible from plain assembly.

It would be much nicer to use an alternative instruction sequence for
the DSB, as this would avoid the need to read from ICC_CTLR_EL1 in the
entry code, and for most other code this will result in simpler code
generation with fewer instructions and fewer branches.

This patch adds a new ARM64_HAS_GIC_PRIO_RELAXED_SYNC cpucap which is
only set when ICC_CTLR_EL1.PMHE == 0b0 (and GIC priority masking is in
use). This allows us to replace the existing users of the
`gic_pmr_sync` static key with alternative sequences which default to a
DSB SY and are relaxed to a NOP when PMHE is not in use.

The entry assembly management of the PMR is slightly restructured to use
a branch (rather than multiple NOPs) when priority masking is not in
use. This is more in keeping with other alternatives in the entry
assembly, and permits the use of a separate alternatives for the
PMHE-dependent DSB SY (and removal of the conditional branch this
currently requires). For consistency I've adjusted both the save and
restore paths.

According to bloat-o-meter, when building defconfig +
CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI=y this shrinks the kernel text by ~4KiB:

| add/remove: 4/2 grow/shrink: 42/310 up/down: 332/-5032 (-4700)

The resulting vmlinux is ~66KiB smaller, though the resulting Image size
is unchanged due to padding and alignment:

| [mark@lakrids:~/src/linux]% ls -al vmlinux-*
| -rwxr-xr-x 1 mark mark 137508344 Jan 17 14:11 vmlinux-after
| -rwxr-xr-x 1 mark mark 137575440 Jan 17 13:49 vmlinux-before
| [mark@lakrids:~/src/linux]% ls -al Image-*
| -rw-r--r-- 1 mark mark 38777344 Jan 17 14:11 Image-after
| -rw-r--r-- 1 mark mark 38777344 Jan 17 13:49 Image-before

Prior to this patch we did not verify the state of ICC_CTLR_EL1.PMHE on
secondary CPUs. As of this patch this is verified by the cpufeature code
when using GIC priority masking (i.e. when using pseudo-NMIs).

Note that since commit:

  7e3a57fa6c ("arm64: Document ICC_CTLR_EL3.PMHE setting requirements")

... Documentation/arm64/booting.rst specifies:

|      - ICC_CTLR_EL3.PMHE (bit 6) must be set to the same value across
|        all CPUs the kernel is executing on, and must stay constant
|        for the lifetime of the kernel.

... so that should not adversely affect any compliant systems, and as
we'll only check for the absense of PMHE when using pseudo-NMIs, this
will only fire when such mismatch will adversely affect the system.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230130145429.903791-5-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
History 2023-01-31 16:06:17 +00:00
arch arm64: add ARM64_HAS_GIC_PRIO_RELAXED_SYNC cpucap 2023-01-31 16:06:17 +00:00
block block-2023-01-06 2023-01-06 13:12:42 -08:00
certs certs: make system keyring depend on built-in x509 parser 2022-09-24 04:31:18 +09:00
crypto This update includes the following changes: 2022-12-14 12:31:09 -08:00
Documentation Devicetree fixes for v6.2: 2023-01-07 10:20:33 -08:00
drivers arm64: add ARM64_HAS_GIC_PRIO_RELAXED_SYNC cpucap 2023-01-31 16:06:17 +00:00
fs NFS client fixes for Linux 6.2 2023-01-07 10:38:11 -08:00
include NFS client fixes for Linux 6.2 2023-01-07 10:38:11 -08:00
init Kbuild updates for v6.2 2022-12-19 12:33:32 -06:00
io_uring io_uring: fix CQ waiting timeout handling 2023-01-05 08:04:47 -07:00
ipc Non-MM patches for 6.2-rc1. 2022-12-12 17:28:58 -08:00
kernel Including fixes from bpf, wifi, and netfilter. 2023-01-05 12:40:50 -08:00
lib v6.2 first rc pull request 2023-01-07 10:06:47 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm memblock: Fix doc for memblock_phys_free 2023-01-04 12:31:22 +02:00
net NFS client fixes for Linux 6.2 2023-01-07 10:38:11 -08:00
rust rust: types: add Opaque type 2022-12-04 01:59:16 +01:00
samples Char/Misc driver changes for 6.2-rc1 2022-12-16 03:49:24 -08:00
scripts kbuild: readd -w option when vmlinux.o or Module.symver is missing 2023-01-05 16:53:48 +09:00
security kernel hardening fixes for v6.2-rc1 2022-12-23 12:00:24 -08:00
sound ALSA: hda/hdmi: Static PCM mapping again with AMD HDMI codecs 2022-12-28 14:05:06 +01:00
tools memblock: small fixes in kernel-doc and tests 2023-01-08 02:54:24 -08:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt Merge branch 'kvm-late-6.1-fixes' into HEAD 2022-12-28 07:19:14 -05:00
.clang-format iommufd for 6.2 2022-12-14 09:15:43 -08:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore *.rpm 2022-12-30 17:22:14 +09:00
.mailmap Non-MM patches for 6.2-rc1. 2022-12-12 17:28:58 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: zram: zsmalloc: Add an additional co-maintainer 2022-12-15 16:37:49 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS block-2023-01-06 2023-01-06 13:12:42 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.2-rc3 2023-01-08 11:49:43 -06:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

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.