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>
John Tsichritzis
Louis Mayencourt