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Arm Neoverse-N2 (#2067961) and Cortex-A710 (#2054223) suffers from errata, where a TSB (trace synchronization barrier) fails to flush the trace data completely, when executed from a trace prohibited region. In Linux we always execute it after we have moved the PE to trace prohibited region. So, we can apply the workaround every time a TSB is executed. The work around is to issue two TSB consecutively. NOTE: This errata is defined as LOCAL_CPU_ERRATUM, implying that a late CPU could be blocked from booting if it is the first CPU that requires the workaround. This is because we do not allow setting a cpu_hwcaps after the SMP boot. The other alternative is to use "this_cpu_has_cap()" instead of the faster system wide check, which may be a bit of an overhead, given we may have to do this in nvhe KVM host before a guest entry. Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211019163153.3692640-4-suzuki.poulose@arm.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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.