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Neoverse N1 erratum 1315703 is a Cat A (rare) erratum [1], present in
older revisions of the Neoverse N1 processor core.
The workaround is to set a bit in the implementation defined CPUACTLR2_EL1
system register, which will disable the load-bypass-store feature.

[1] http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.pjdocpjdoc-466751330-1032/index.html



Change-Id: I5c708dbe0efa4daa0bcb6bd9622c5efe19c03af9
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>

Examine the ID_AA64PFR1_EL1 bits 7:4 to see if speculative
loads (SSBS) is implemented, before disabling speculative
loads.

Change-Id: I7607c45ed2889260d22a94f6fd9af804520acf67
Signed-off-by: Sami Mujawar <sami.mujawar@arm.com>

This patch fixes this issue:
https://github.com/ARM-software/tf-issues/issues/660



The introduced changes are the following:

1) Some cores implement cache coherency maintenance operation on the
hardware level. For those cores, such as - but not only - the DynamIQ
cores, it is mandatory that TF-A is compiled with the
HW_ASSISTED_COHERENCY flag. If not, the core behaviour at runtime is
unpredictable. To prevent this, compile time checks have been added and
compilation errors are generated, if needed.

2) To enable this change for FVP, a logical separation has been done for
the core libraries. A system cannot contain cores of both groups, i.e.
cores that manage coherency on hardware and cores that don't do it. As
such, depending on the HW_ASSISTED_COHERENCY flag, FVP includes the
libraries only of the relevant cores.

3) The neoverse_e1.S file has been added to the FVP sources.

Change-Id: I787d15819b2add4ec0d238249e04bf0497dc12f3
Signed-off-by: John Tsichritzis <john.tsichritzis@arm.com>

This patch forces all cacheable atomic instructions to be near, which
improves performance in highly contended parallelized use-cases.

Change-Id: I93fac62847f4af8d5eaaf3b52318c30893e947d3
Signed-off-by: Louis Mayencourt <louis.mayencourt@arm.com>

This patch applies the new MSR instruction to directly set the
PSTATE.SSBS bit which controls speculative loads. This new instruction
is available at Neoverse N1 core so it's utilised.

Change-Id: Iee18a8b042c90fdb72d2b98f364dcfbb17510728
Signed-off-by: John Tsichritzis <john.tsichritzis@arm.com>

Change-Id: Ideb49011da35f39ff1959be6f5015fa212ca2b6b
Signed-off-by: John Tsichritzis <john.tsichritzis@arm.com>

Change-Id: I0bb5aca9bb272332340b5baefc473a01f8a27896
Signed-off-by: John Tsichritzis <john.tsichritzis@arm.com>

This patch fixes the name of the Cortex-ares errata function which was
previously named `cortex_a72_errata_report` which was an error.

Change-Id: Ia124df4628261021baa8d9a30308bc286d45712b
Signed-off-by: Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>

The workaround uses the instruction patching feature of the Ares cpu.

Change-Id: I868fce0dc0e8e41853dcce311f01ee3867aabb59
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>

Change-Id: Ia170c12d3929a616ba80eb7645c301066641f5cc
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>

Both Cortex-Ares and Cortex-A76 CPUs use the ARM DynamIQ Shared Unit
(DSU).  The power-down and power-up sequences are therefore mostly
managed in hardware, and required software operations are simple.

Change-Id: I3a9447b5bdbdbc5ed845b20f6564d086516fa161
Signed-off-by: Isla Mitchell <isla.mitchell@arm.com>

This fix modifies the order of system includes to meet the ARM TF coding
standard. There are some exceptions in order to retain header groupings,
minimise changes to imported headers, and where there are headers within
the #if and #ifndef statements.

Change-Id: I65085a142ba6a83792b26efb47df1329153f1624
Signed-off-by: Isla Mitchell <isla.mitchell@arm.com>

Both Cortex-A75 and Cortex-A55 CPUs use the ARM DynamIQ Shared Unit
(DSU). The power-down and power-up sequences are therefore mostly
managed in hardware, and required software operations are considerably
simpler.

Change-Id: I68b30e6e1ebe7c041d5e67f39c59f08575fc7ecc
Co-authored-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>