On 28/01/2019 12:50, Julien Grall wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Early version of Cortex-A76 can end-up with corrupt TLBs if they
> speculate an AT instruction while the S1/S2 system registers are in an
> inconsistent state.
> 
> This can happen during guest context switch and when invalidating the
> TLBs for other than the current VMID.
> 
> The workaround implemented in Xen will:
>     - Use an empty stage-2 with a reserved VMID while context
>       switching between 2 guests
>     - Use an empty stage-2 with the VMID where TLBs need to
>       be flushed
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> CC: <jgr...@suse.com>
> 
> Julien Grall (7):
>   xen/arm: Only set necessary flags when initializing HCR_EL2
>   xen/arm: p2m: Provide an helper to generate the VTTBR
>   xen/arm: p2m: Introduce an helper to allocate the root page-table
>   xen/arm: domain_build: Don't switch to the guest P2M when copying data
>   xen/arm: p2m: Only use isb() when it is necessary
>   xen/arm: Implement workaround for Cortex-A76 erratum 1165522
>   DO NOT APPLY Allow testing the new AT speculate workaround code
> 
>  docs/misc/arm/silicon-errata.txt |   1 +
>  xen/arch/arm/cpuerrata.c         |  16 ++++++
>  xen/arch/arm/domain.c            |   8 ++-
>  xen/arch/arm/domain_build.c      |  13 -----
>  xen/arch/arm/p2m.c               | 118 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  xen/arch/arm/traps.c             |   8 ++-
>  xen/include/asm-arm/cpufeature.h |   3 +-
>  xen/include/asm-arm/processor.h  |   2 +
>  8 files changed, 139 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
> 

Release-acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com>


Juergen

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