RE: [PATCH] arm64 memory accesses may cause undefined fault on Fujitsu-A64FX

2019-01-24 Thread Zhang, Lei
'will.dea...@arm.com'; > 'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'; > 'linux-arm-ker...@lists.infradead.org'; Zhang, Lei/張 雷 > Subject: RE: [PATCH] arm64 memory accesses may cause undefined fault on > Fujitsu-A64FX > > At first thanks for your comments. > I thinks James's comments i

RE: [PATCH] arm64 memory accesses may cause undefined fault on Fujitsu-A64FX

2019-01-23 Thread Zhang, Lei
ernel@vger.kernel.org' > Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64 memory accesses may cause undefined fault on > Fujitsu-A64FX > > As above, I'm very concerned that this could be taken from kernel > context. There are a number of cases where we cannot handle such faults: At first thanks for your

Re: [PATCH] arm64 memory accesses may cause undefined fault on Fujitsu-A64FX

2019-01-22 Thread Mark Rutland
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 02:05:26AM +, Zhang, Lei wrote: > Hi, Mark > > Thanks for your comments, and sorry for late. > > > -Original Message- > > * Under what conditions can the fault occur? e.g. is this in place of > > some other fault, or completely spurious? > This fault can

Re: [PATCH] arm64 memory accesses may cause undefined fault on Fujitsu-A64FX

2019-01-22 Thread James Morse
Hello, On 22/01/2019 02:05, Zhang, Lei wrote: > Mark Rutland wrote: >> * How often does this fault occur? > In my test, this fault occurs once every several times > in the OS boot sequence, and after the completion of OS boot, > this fault have never occurred. > In my opinion, this fault rarely

RE: [PATCH] arm64 memory accesses may cause undefined fault on Fujitsu-A64FX

2019-01-21 Thread Zhang, Lei
Hi, Mark Thanks for your comments, and sorry for late. > -Original Message- > * Under what conditions can the fault occur? e.g. is this in place of > some other fault, or completely spurious? This fault can occur completely spurious under a specific hardware condition and instructions

Re: [PATCH] arm64 memory accesses may cause undefined fault on Fujitsu-A64FX

2019-01-18 Thread Mark Rutland
Hi, On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 12:52:38PM +, Zhang, Lei wrote: > On some variants of the Fujitsu-A64FX cores ver(1.0, 1.1), > memory accesses may cause undefined fault (Data abort, DFSC=0b11). So that we can better understand the problem, could you please let us know the following: *