[Xen-devel] [RFC 16/16] xen/arm: arm64: Document Cortex-A57 erratum 834220

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>]

The ARM erratum applies to certain revisions of Cortex-A57. The
processor may report a Stage 2 translation fault as the result of
Stage 1 fault for load crossing a page boundary when there is a
permission fault or device memory fault at stage 1 and a translation
fault at Stage 2.

So Xen needs to check that Stage 1 translation does not generate a fault
before handling the Stage 2 fault. If it is a Stage 1 translation fault,
return to the guest to let the processor injecting the correct fault.

Only document it as this is already the behavior of the fault handlers.
Note that some optimization could be done to avoid unecessary translation
fault. This is because HPFAR_EL2 is valid for more use case. For the moment,
the code is left unmodified.

Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>
---
 docs/misc/arm/silicon-errata.txt |  1 +
 xen/arch/arm/traps.c             | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/misc/arm/silicon-errata.txt b/docs/misc/arm/silicon-errata.txt
index ab2e5bc..1ac365d 100644
--- a/docs/misc/arm/silicon-errata.txt
+++ b/docs/misc/arm/silicon-errata.txt
@@ -47,3 +47,4 @@ stable hypervisors.
 | ARM            | Cortex-A53      | #819472         | ARM64_ERRATUM_819472    
|
 | ARM            | Cortex-A57      | #852523         | N/A                     
|
 | ARM            | Cortex-A57      | #832075         | ARM64_ERRATUM_832075    
|
+| ARM            | Cortex-A57      | #834220         | N/A                     
|
diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/traps.c b/xen/arch/arm/traps.c
index 3acdba0..bbd5309 100644
--- a/xen/arch/arm/traps.c
+++ b/xen/arch/arm/traps.c
@@ -2396,6 +2396,21 @@ static void do_trap_instr_abort_guest(struct 
cpu_user_regs *regs,
             .kind = hsr.iabt.s1ptw ? npfec_kind_in_gpt : npfec_kind_with_gla
         };
 
+        /*
+         * Erratum #834220: The processor may report a Stage 2
+         * translation fault as the result of Stage 1 fault for load
+         * crossing a page boundary when there is a permission fault or
+         * device memory alignment fault at Stage 1 and a translation
+         * fault at Stage 2.
+         *
+         * So Xen needs to check that the Stage 1 translation does not
+         * generate a fault before handling stage 2 fault. If it is a Stage
+         * 1 translation fault, return to the guest to let the processor
+         * injecting the correct fault.
+         *
+         * XXX: This can be optimized to avoid some unecessary
+         * translation.
+         */
         if ( hsr.iabt.s1ptw )
             gpa = get_faulting_ipa();
         else
@@ -2445,6 +2460,21 @@ static void do_trap_data_abort_guest(struct 
cpu_user_regs *regs,
     info.gva = READ_SYSREG64(FAR_EL2);
 #endif
 
+    /*
+     * Erratum #834220: The processor may report a Stage 2
+     * translation fault as the result of Stage 1 fault for load
+     * crossing a page boundary when there is a permission fault or
+     * device memory alignment fault at Stage 1 and a translation
+     * fault at Stage 2.
+     *
+     * So Xen needs to check that the Stage 1 translation does not
+     * generate a fault before handling stage 2 fault. If it is a Stage
+     * 1 translation fault, return to the guest to let the processor
+     * injecting the correct fault.
+     *
+     * XXX: This can be optimized to avoid some unecessary
+     * translation.
+     */
     if ( dabt.s1ptw )
         info.gpa = get_faulting_ipa();
     else
-- 
1.9.1


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