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Julius Werner 702dc50f1d libpayload: ehci: Cache management is hard, let's go copying...
It turns out that my previous commit to make the EHCI stack cache aware
on ARM devices wasn't quite correct, and the problem is actually much
trickier than I thought. After having some fun with more weird transfer
problems that appear/disappear based on stack alignment, this is my
current worst-case threat model that any cache managing implementation
would need to handle correctly:

Some upper layer calls ehci_bulk() with a transfer buffer on its stack.
Due to stack alignment, it happens to start just at the top of a cache
line, so up to 64 - 4 bytes of ehci_bulk's stack will share that line.
ehci_bulk() calls dcache_clean() and initializes the USB transfer.
Between that point and the call to dcache_invalidate() at the end of
ehci_bulk(), any access to the stack variables in that cache line (even
a speculative prefetch) will refetch the line into the cache. Afterwards
any other access to a random memory location that just happens to get
aliased to the same cache line may evict it again, causing the processor
to write out stale data to the transfer buffer and possibly overwrite
data that has already been received over USB.

In short, any dcache_clean/dcache_invalidate-based implementation that
preserves correctness while allowing any arbitrary (non cache-aligned)
memory location as a transfer buffer is presumed to be impossible.
Instead, this patch causes all transfer data to be copied to/from a
cache-coherent bounce buffer. It will still transfer directly if the
supplied buffer is already cache-coherent, which can be used by callers
to optimize their transfers (and is true by default on x86).

CQ-DEPEND=CL:169170
BUG=chrome-os-partner:21969
TEST=Make sure Snow still boots from the USB 2.0 port.

Change-Id: I112908410bdbc8ca028d44f2f5d388c529f8057f
Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/169231
Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer <reinauer@chromium.org>
2013-09-14 01:31:18 +00:00
3rdparty@ba8caa30bd Update 3rdparty mark to latest repository 2013-03-15 19:09:08 +01:00
configs config: Add default config for beltino 2013-09-03 23:37:26 +00:00
documentation sconfig: rename lapic_cluster -> cpu_cluster 2013-02-14 07:07:20 +01:00
payloads libpayload: ehci: Cache management is hard, let's go copying... 2013-09-14 01:31:18 +00:00
src armv7: mark EABI compatibility symbols as used 2013-09-13 23:23:58 +00:00
util xcompile: only enforce BFD linker on x86 2013-09-13 20:15:26 +00:00
.gitignore add a few entries to .gitignore 2013-01-10 22:51:20 +01:00
COPYING update license template. 2006-08-12 22:03:36 +00:00
Makefile build system: Retire REQUIRES_BLOB 2013-02-19 11:00:41 +01:00
Makefile.inc rmodule: add rmodules class and new type 2013-03-18 20:46:40 +01:00
PRESUBMIT.cfg chromeos: Add PRESUBMIT.cfg 2013-05-01 14:31:10 -07:00
README Update README with newer version of the text from the web page 2011-06-15 10:16:33 +02:00

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coreboot README
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coreboot is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS
(firmware) found in most computers.  coreboot performs a little bit of
hardware initialization and then executes additional boot logic, called a
payload.

With the separation of hardware initialization and later boot logic,
coreboot can scale from specialized applications that run directly
firmware, run operating systems in flash, load custom
bootloaders, or implement firmware standards, like PC BIOS services or
UEFI. This allows for systems to only include the features necessary
in the target application, reducing the amount of code and flash space
required.

coreboot was formerly known as LinuxBIOS.


Payloads
--------

After the basic initialization of the hardware has been performed, any
desired "payload" can be started by coreboot.

See http://www.coreboot.org/Payloads for a list of supported payloads.


Supported Hardware
------------------

coreboot supports a wide range of chipsets, devices, and mainboards.

For details please consult:

 * http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards
 * http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Chipsets_and_Devices


Build Requirements
------------------

 * gcc / g++
 * make

Optional:

 * doxygen (for generating/viewing documentation)
 * iasl (for targets with ACPI support)
 * gdb (for better debugging facilities on some targets)
 * ncurses (for 'make menuconfig')
 * flex and bison (for regenerating parsers)


Building coreboot
-----------------

Please consult http://www.coreboot.org/Build_HOWTO for details.


Testing coreboot Without Modifying Your Hardware
------------------------------------------------

If you want to test coreboot without any risks before you really decide
to use it on your hardware, you can use the QEMU system emulator to run
coreboot virtually in QEMU.

Please see http://www.coreboot.org/QEMU for details.


Website and Mailing List
------------------------

Further details on the project, a FAQ, many HOWTOs, news, development
guidelines and more can be found on the coreboot website:

  http://www.coreboot.org

You can contact us directly on the coreboot mailing list:

  http://www.coreboot.org/Mailinglist


Copyright and License
---------------------

The copyright on coreboot is owned by quite a large number of individual
developers and companies. Please check the individual source files for details.

coreboot is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Some files are licensed under the "GPL (version 2, or any later version)",
and some files are licensed under the "GPL, version 2". For some parts, which
were derived from other projects, other (GPL-compatible) licenses may apply.
Please check the individual source files for details.

This makes the resulting coreboot images licensed under the GPL, version 2.