[Skiboot] [PATCH v3 07/13] xive: Workaround HW issue with scrub facility
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Sun Sep 10 17:35:29 AEST 2017
Without this, we sometimes don't observe from a CPU the
values written to the ENDs or NVTs via the cache watch.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
---
hw/xive.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/hw/xive.c b/hw/xive.c
index d8d51dee..98839219 100644
--- a/hw/xive.c
+++ b/hw/xive.c
@@ -1232,6 +1232,12 @@ enum xive_cache_type {
xive_cache_vpc,
};
+static int64_t __xive_cache_watch(struct xive *x, enum xive_cache_type ctype,
+ uint64_t block, uint64_t idx,
+ uint32_t start_dword, uint32_t dword_count,
+ void *new_data, bool light_watch,
+ bool synchronous);
+
static int64_t __xive_cache_scrub(struct xive *x, enum xive_cache_type ctype,
uint64_t block, uint64_t idx,
bool want_inval, bool want_disable)
@@ -1239,6 +1245,17 @@ static int64_t __xive_cache_scrub(struct xive *x, enum xive_cache_type ctype,
uint64_t sreg, sregx, mreg, mregx;
uint64_t mval, sval;
+ /* Workaround a HW bug in XIVE where the scrub completion
+ * isn't ordered by loads, thus the data might still be
+ * in a queue and may not have reached coherency.
+ *
+ * The workaround is two folds: We force the scrub to also
+ * invalidate, then after the scrub, we do a dummy cache
+ * watch which will make the HW read the data back, which
+ * should be ordered behind all the preceding stores.
+ */
+ want_inval = true;
+
switch (ctype) {
case xive_cache_ivc:
sreg = VC_IVC_SCRUB_TRIG;
@@ -1293,6 +1310,13 @@ static int64_t __xive_cache_scrub(struct xive *x, enum xive_cache_type ctype,
time_wait(100);
}
sync();
+
+ /* Workaround for HW bug described above (only applies to
+ * EQC and VPC
+ */
+ if (ctype == xive_cache_eqc || ctype == xive_cache_vpc)
+ __xive_cache_watch(x, ctype, block, idx, 0, 0, NULL,
+ true, false);
return 0;
}
@@ -1304,7 +1328,6 @@ static int64_t xive_ivc_scrub(struct xive *x, uint64_t block, uint64_t idx)
static int64_t xive_vpc_scrub_clean(struct xive *x, uint64_t block, uint64_t idx)
{
- /* IVC has no "want_inval" bit, it always invalidates */
return __xive_cache_scrub(x, xive_cache_vpc, block, idx, true, false);
}
@@ -1348,6 +1371,14 @@ static int64_t __xive_cache_watch(struct xive *x, enum xive_cache_type ctype,
/* Load data0 register to populate the watch */
dval0 = __xive_regr(x, dreg0, dreg0x, NULL);
+ /* If new_data is NULL, this is a dummy watch used as a
+ * workaround for a HW bug
+ */
+ if (!new_data) {
+ __xive_regw(x, dreg0, dreg0x, dval0, NULL);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
/* Write the words into the watch facility. We write in reverse
* order in case word 0 is part of it as it must be the last
* one written.
--
2.13.5
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