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ARM erratum 855873 applies to all Cortex-A53 CPUs.
The recommended workaround is to promote "data cache clean"
instructions to "data cache clean and invalidate" instructions.
For core revisions of r0p3 and later this can be done by setting a bit
in the CPUACTLR_EL1 register, so that hardware takes care of the promotion.
As CPUACTLR_EL1 is both IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED and can be trapped to EL3,
we set the bit in firmware.
Also we dump this register upon crashing to provide more debug
information.

Enable the workaround for the Juno boards.

Change-Id: I3840114291958a406574ab6c49b01a9d9847fec8
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>

TLBI instructions for EL3 won't have the desired effect under specific
circumstances in Cortex-A57 r0p0. The workaround is to execute DSB and
TLBI twice each time.

Even though this errata is only needed in r0p0, the current errata
framework is not prepared to apply run-time workarounds. The current one
is always applied if compiled in, regardless of the CPU or its revision.

This errata has been enabled for Juno.

The `DSB` instruction used when initializing the translation tables has
been changed to `DSB ISH` as an optimization and to be consistent with
the barriers used for the workaround.

Change-Id: Ifc1d70b79cb5e0d87e90d88d376a59385667d338
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

The errata is enabled by default on r0p4, which is confusing given that
we state we do not enable errata by default.

This patch clarifies this sentence by saying it is enabled in hardware
by default.

Change-Id: I70a062d93e1da2416d5f6d5776a77a659da737aa
Signed-off-by: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>

The errata reporting policy is as follows:

  - If an errata workaround is enabled:

    - If it applies (i.e. the CPU is affected by the errata), an INFO
      message is printed, confirming that the errata workaround has been
      applied.

    - If it does not apply, a VERBOSE message is printed, confirming
      that the errata workaround has been skipped.

  - If an errata workaround is not enabled, but would have applied had
    it been, a WARN message is printed, alerting that errata workaround
    is missing.

The CPU errata messages are printed by both BL1 (primary CPU only) and
runtime firmware on debug builds, once for each CPU/errata combination.

Relevant output from Juno r1 console when ARM Trusted Firmware is built
with PLAT=juno LOG_LEVEL=50 DEBUG=1:

  VERBOSE: BL1: cortex_a57: errata workaround for 806969 was not applied
  VERBOSE: BL1: cortex_a57: errata workaround for 813420 was not applied
  INFO:    BL1: cortex_a57: errata workaround for disable_ldnp_overread was applied
  WARNING: BL1: cortex_a57: errata workaround for 826974 was missing!
  WARNING: BL1: cortex_a57: errata workaround for 826977 was missing!
  WARNING: BL1: cortex_a57: errata workaround for 828024 was missing!
  WARNING: BL1: cortex_a57: errata workaround for 829520 was missing!
  WARNING: BL1: cortex_a57: errata workaround for 833471 was missing!
  ...
  VERBOSE: BL31: cortex_a57: errata workaround for 806969 was not applied
  VERBOSE: BL31: cortex_a57: errata workaround for 813420 was not applied
  INFO:    BL31: cortex_a57: errata workaround for disable_ldnp_overread was applied
  WARNING: BL31: cortex_a57: errata workaround for 826974 was missing!
  WARNING: BL31: cortex_a57: errata workaround for 826977 was missing!
  WARNING: BL31: cortex_a57: errata workaround for 828024 was missing!
  WARNING: BL31: cortex_a57: errata workaround for 829520 was missing!
  WARNING: BL31: cortex_a57: errata workaround for 833471 was missing!
  ...
  VERBOSE: BL31: cortex_a53: errata workaround for 826319 was not applied
  INFO:    BL31: cortex_a53: errata workaround for disable_non_temporal_hint was applied

Also update documentation.

Change-Id: Iccf059d3348adb876ca121cdf5207bdbbacf2aba
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>

This patch adds links to the Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57 MPCores
Software Developers Errata Notice documents in the ARM CPU Specific
Build Macros document.

Change-Id: I0aa26d7f373026097ed012a02bc61ee2c5b9d6fc

Change-Id: I86ac81ffd7cd094ce68c4cceb01c16563671a063

Change-Id: Icaacd19c4cef9c10d02adcc2f84a4d7c97d4bcfa

Change-Id: Ia2ce8aa752efb090cfc734c1895c8f2539e82439

Change-Id: I632a8c5bb517ff89c69268e865be33101059be7d

Change-Id: I45641551474f4c58c638aff8c42c0ab9a8ec78b4

This patch adds a link to the Cortex-A57 Software Optimization Guide
in the ARM CPU Specific Build Macros document to justify the default
value of the A57_DISABLE_NON_TEMPORAL_HINT build flag.

Change-Id: I9779e42a4bb118442b2b64717ce143314ec9dd16

The LDNP/STNP instructions as implemented on Cortex-A53 and
Cortex-A57 do not behave in a way most programmers expect, and will
most probably result in a significant speed degradation to any code
that employs them. The ARMv8-A architecture (see Document ARM DDI
0487A.h, section D3.4.3) allows cores to ignore the non-temporal hint
and treat LDNP/STNP as LDP/STP instead.

This patch introduces 2 new build flags:
A53_DISABLE_NON_TEMPORAL_HINT and A57_DISABLE_NON_TEMPORAL_HINT
to enforce this behaviour on Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57. They are
enabled by default.

The string printed in debug builds when a specific CPU errata
workaround is compiled in but skipped at runtime has been
generalised, so that it can be reused for the non-temporal hint use
case as well.

Change-Id: I3e354f4797fd5d3959872a678e160322b13867a1

- Apply a53 errata #826319 to revision <= r0p2
- Apply a53 errata #836870 to revision <= r0p3
- Update docs/cpu-specific-build-macros.md for newly added errata build flags

Change-Id: I44918e36b47dca1fa29695b68700ff9bf888865e
Signed-off-by: Jimmy Huang <jimmy.huang@mediatek.com>

Change-Id: Iaf9d6305edc478d39cf1b37c8a70ccdf723e8ef9

Fixes arm-software/tf-issues#276

This patch optimizes the Cortex-A57 cluster power down sequence by not
flushing the Level1 data cache. The L1 data cache and the L2 unified
cache are inclusive. A flush of the L2 by set/way flushes any dirty
lines from the L1 as well. This is a known safe deviation from the
Cortex-A57 TRM defined power down sequence. This optimization can be
enabled by the platform through the 'SKIP_A57_L1_FLUSH_PWR_DWN' build
flag. Each Cortex-A57 based platform must make its own decision on
whether to use the optimization.

This patch also renames the cpu-errata-workarounds.md to
cpu-specific-build-macros.md as this facilitates documentation
of both CPU Specific errata and CPU Specific Optimization
build macros.

Change-Id: I299b9fe79e9a7e08e8a0dffb7d345f9a00a71480

Prior to this patch, the errata workarounds were applied for any version
of the CPU in the release build and in the debug build an assert
failure resulted when the revision did not match. This patch applies
errata workarounds in the Cortex-A57 reset handler only if the 'variant'
and 'revision' fields read from the MIDR_EL1 match. In the debug build,
a warning message is printed for each errata workaround which is not
applied.

The patch modifies the register usage in 'reset_handler` so
as to adhere to ARM procedure calling standards.

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#242

Change-Id: I51b1f876474599db885afa03346e38a476f84c29

This patch gathers miscellaneous minor fixes to the documentation, and comments
in the source code.

Change-Id: I631e3dda5abafa2d90f464edaee069a1e58b751b
Co-Authored-By: Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>
Co-Authored-By: Dan Handley <dan.handley@arm.com>

This patch adds documentation for CPU specific abstraction in the firmware-
design.md and adds a new document cpu-errata-workarounds.md to describe
the cpu errata workaround build flags.

Change-Id: Ia08c2fec0b868a0a107d0264e87a60182797a1bd