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From: Suzuki.Poulose@arm•com (Suzuki K. Poulose)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCHv3 08/11] arm64: Check for selected granule support
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 10:48:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <561F765D.8090400@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <561EC58B.9080408@arm.com>

On 14/10/15 22:13, Jeremy Linton wrote:
> On 10/14/2015 06:20 AM, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
>
>> + * Checks if the selected granule size is supported by the CPU.
>> + * If it doesn't park the CPU
>
> The problem is when you park the boot CPU.
>
> I think for EFI there is a slightly better error mechanism. This tweak will print an
> error and return to the EFI boot manager rather than hanging the machine without any
>  notification. Now it prints:
>
> EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel...
> EFI stub: ERROR: 16K granule not supported by this machine
> EFI stub: ERROR: Failed to relocate kernel
> FS4:\>

Nice ! I will pick this up.

>
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm•com>
> ---
>   arch/arm64/kernel/efi-stub.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-stub.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-stub.c
> index 816120e..90fb868 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-stub.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-stub.c
> @@ -25,6 +25,20 @@ efi_status_t __init handle_kernel_image(efi_system_table_t *sys_table_arg,
>          unsigned long kernel_size, kernel_memsize = 0;
>          unsigned long nr_pages;
>          void *old_image_addr = (void *)*image_addr;
> +       u32 aa64mmfr0_el1;
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_16K_PAGES

I would prefer to have it on for all page sizes and not just 16K, to be on a safer side

> +       /*
> +        * check to see if this kernel image is
> +        * compatible with the current system
> +        */
> +       asm volatile("mrs %0, ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1" : "=r" (aa64mmfr0_el1));
> +       aa64mmfr0_el1 >>= ID_AA64MMFR0_TGRAN16_SHIFT;
> +       if ((aa64mmfr0_el1 & ID_AA64MMFR0_TGRAN4_ON) == 0) {
> +               pr_efi_err(sys_table_arg, "16K granule not supported by this machine\n");
> +               return EFI_UNSUPPORTED;
> +       }
> +#endif

Thanks
Suzuki

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-15  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-14 11:20 [PATCHv3 00/11] arm64: 16K translation granule support Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 11:20 ` [PATCHv3 01/11] arm64: Move swapper pagetable definitions Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 11:42   ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-14 12:41     ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 11:20 ` [PATCHv3 02/11] arm64: Handle section maps for swapper/idmap Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 12:06   ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-14 13:21     ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 14:51       ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-14 15:08         ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 15:14           ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-14 11:20 ` [PATCHv3 03/11] arm64: Introduce helpers for page table levels Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 17:07   ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-15  9:35     ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-15 10:37       ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-15 11:40       ` Christoffer Dall
2015-10-15 11:37   ` Christoffer Dall
2015-10-15 12:44     ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-15 13:14       ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-15 13:30         ` Christoffer Dall
2015-10-15 13:48           ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-15 14:15             ` Christoffer Dall
2015-10-14 11:20 ` [PATCHv3 04/11] arm64: Calculate size for idmap_pg_dir at compile time Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 17:12   ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-14 11:20 ` [PATCHv3 05/11] arm64: Handle 4 level page table for swapper Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 17:15   ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-14 11:20 ` [PATCHv3 06/11] arm64: Clean config usages for page size Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 11:20 ` [PATCHv3 07/11] arm64: Kconfig: Fix help text about AArch32 support with 64K pages Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 17:16   ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-14 11:20 ` [PATCHv3 08/11] arm64: Check for selected granule support Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 17:24   ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-14 17:32     ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-15  9:45     ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-15 10:39       ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-14 21:13   ` Jeremy Linton
2015-10-15  9:48     ` Suzuki K. Poulose [this message]
2015-10-15 10:45     ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-15 11:25       ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-15 12:37         ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-15 12:58           ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-16  8:03             ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-10-15 14:47         ` Jeremy Linton
2015-10-15 15:02           ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-15 15:11           ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-16  8:11             ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-10-14 11:20 ` [PATCHv3 09/11] arm64: Add page size to the kernel image header Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 17:27   ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-15  9:19     ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 11:20 ` [PATCHv3 10/11] arm64: Add 16K page size support Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 15:40   ` Jeremy Linton
2015-10-14 15:53     ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-15 14:06   ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-15 14:48     ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-15 15:36       ` Steve Capper
2015-10-15 15:48         ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 11:20 ` [PATCHv3 11/11] arm64: 36 bit VA Suzuki K. Poulose

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