Add workaround for Cortex-A15 ARM erratum 801819 which says in summary
that "A livelock can occur in the L2 cache arbitration that might
prevent a snoop from completing. Under certain conditions this can
cause the system to deadlock. "
Recommended workaround is as follows:
Do both of the following:
1) Do not use the write-back no-allocate memory type.
2) Do not issue write-back cacheable stores at any time when the cache
is disabled (SCTLR.C=0) and the MMU is enabled (SCTLR.M=1). Because it
is implementation defined whether cacheable stores update the cache when
the cache is disabled it is not expected that any portable code will
execute cacheable stores when the cache is disabled.
For implementations of Cortex-A15 configured without the “L2 arbitration
register slice” option (typically one or two core systems), you must
also do the following:
3) Disable write-streaming in each CPU by setting ACTLR[28:25] = 0b1111
So, we provide an option to disable write streaming on OMAP5 and DRA7.
It is a rare condition to occur and may be enabled selectively based
on platform acceptance of risk.
Applies to: A15 revisions r2p0, r2p1, r2p2, r2p3 or r2p4 and REVIDR[3]
is set to 0.
Based on ARM errata Document revision 18.0 (22 Nov 2013)
Note: the configuration for the workaround needs to be done with
each CPU bringup, since CPU0 bringup is done by bootloader, it is
recommended to have the workaround in the bootloader, kernel also does
ensure that CPU0 has the workaround and makes the workaround active
when CPU1 gets active.
With CONFIG_SMP disabled, it is expected to be done by the bootloader.
This does show significant degradation in synthetic tests such as
mbw (https://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mbw.html)
mbw -n 100 100|grep AVG (on a test platform)
Without enabling the erratum:
AVG Method: MEMCPY Elapsed: 0.13406 MiB: 100.00000 Copy: 745.913 MiB/s
AVG Method: DUMB Elapsed: 0.06746 MiB: 100.00000 Copy: 1482.357 MiB/s
AVG Method: MCBLOCK Elapsed: 0.03058 MiB: 100.00000 Copy: 3270.569 MiB/s
After enabling the erratum:
AVG Method: MEMCPY Elapsed: 0.13757 MiB: 100.00000 Copy: 726.913 MiB/s
AVG Method: DUMB Elapsed: 0.12024 MiB: 100.00000 Copy: 831.668 MiB/s
AVG Method: MCBLOCK Elapsed: 0.09243 MiB: 100.00000 Copy: 1081.942 MiB/s
Most benchmarks are designed for specific performance analysis, so
overall usecase must be considered before making a decision to
enable/disable the erratum workaround.
Pending internal investigation, the erratum is kept disabled by default.
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Suggested-by: Richard Woodruff <r-woodruff2@ti.com>
Suggested-by: Brad Griffis <bgriffis@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
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