Hi Robin, Russel,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robin Murphy <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2018 3:52 PM
[..]
> On 29/10/2018 14:20, Wiebe, Wladislav (Nokia - DE/Ulm) wrote:
> > When running into situations like:
> > "Unhandled fault: synchronous external abort (0x210) at 0xXXX"
> > or
> > "Unhandled prefetch abort: synchronous external abort (0x210) at 0xXXX"
> > it is useful to know the content of ADFSR (Auxiliary Data Fault Status
> > Register) to indicate an ECC double-bit error in L1 or L2 cache.
> >
> > Refer to:
> > Cortex-A15 Technical Reference Manual, Revision: r2p1 [6.4.8. Error
> > Correction Code]
>
> The contents of ADFSR are implementation-defined, though, so this
> interpretation is *only* valid on Cortex-A15. Other processors may use those
> bit positions to report something else, at which point printing a message
> about ECC errors would be totally misleading.
Good point, I thought initially it is valid for others as well.
Do you think we can go with this approach:
if (read_cpuid_part() == ARM_CPU_PART_CORTEX_A15) {
asm("mrc p15, 0, %0, c5, c1, 0" : "=r" (adfsr));
xxxx
}
?
Thanks a lot for the fast feedback!
- Wladislav
>
> Robin.
>
> > Signed-off-by: Wladislav Wiebe <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > arch/arm/mm/fault.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm/mm/fault.c index
> > 3232afb6fdc0..5e240deb6ed6 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/mm/fault.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm/mm/fault.c
> > @@ -547,6 +547,22 @@ hook_fault_code(int nr, int (*fn)(unsigned long,
> unsigned int, struct pt_regs *)
> > fsr_info[nr].name = name;
> > }
> >
> > +/*
> > + * Check for ECC double-bit errors in Auxiliary Data Fault Status
> > +Register */ static void check_adfsr_for_ecc(void) {
> > + u32 adfsr = 0;
> > +
> > + asm("mrc p15, 0, %0, c5, c1, 0" : "=r" (adfsr));
> > +
> > + if (adfsr & (BIT(31) | BIT(23))) {
> > + pr_alert("ADFSR status 0x%x indicates that an L1 or L2
> cache\n"
> > + "ECC double-bit error occurred at some time.\n",
> > + adfsr);
> > + }
> > +}
> > +
> > /*
> > * Dispatch a data abort to the relevant handler.
> > */
> > @@ -559,6 +575,7 @@ do_DataAbort(unsigned long addr, unsigned int fsr,
> struct pt_regs *regs)
> > if (!inf->fn(addr, fsr & ~FSR_LNX_PF, regs))
> > return;
> >
> > + check_adfsr_for_ecc();
> > pr_alert("Unhandled fault: %s (0x%03x) at 0x%08lx\n",
> > inf->name, fsr, addr);
> > show_pte(current->mm, addr);
> > @@ -593,6 +610,7 @@ do_PrefetchAbort(unsigned long addr, unsigned int
> ifsr, struct pt_regs *regs)
> > if (!inf->fn(addr, ifsr | FSR_LNX_PF, regs))
> > return;
> >
> > + check_adfsr_for_ecc();
> > pr_alert("Unhandled prefetch abort: %s (0x%03x) at 0x%08lx\n",
> > inf->name, ifsr, addr);
> >
> >
