Atomic instructions such as 'ldset' in the guest have been observed to
cause an EL1 data abort with FSC 0x35 (IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED fault
(Unsupported Exclusive or Atomic access)) on Neoverse-N3.
Per DDI0487L.a B2.2.6, atomic instructions are only architecturally
guaranteed for Inner/Outer Shareable Normal Write-Back memory. For
anything else the behavior is IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED and can lose
atomicity, or, in this case, generate an abort.
It would appear that selftests sets up the stage-1 mappings as Non
Shareable, leading to the observed abort. Explicitly set the
Shareability field to Inner Shareable for non-LPA2 page tables. Note
that for the LPA2 page table format, translations for cacheable memory
inherit the shareability attribute of the PTW, i.e. TCR_ELx.SH{0,1}.
Suggested-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250405001042.1470552-3-rananta@google.com
[oliver: Rephrase changelog]
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
#define PMD_TYPE_TABLE BIT(1)
#define PTE_TYPE_PAGE BIT(1)
+#define PTE_SHARED (UL(3) << 8) /* SH[1:0], inner shareable */
#define PTE_AF BIT(10)
#define PTE_ADDR_MASK(page_shift) GENMASK(47, (page_shift))
}
pg_attr = PTE_AF | PTE_ATTRINDX(attr_idx) | PTE_TYPE_PAGE | PTE_VALID;
+ if (!use_lpa2_pte_format(vm))
+ pg_attr |= PTE_SHARED;
+
*ptep = addr_pte(vm, paddr, pg_attr);
}