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1Arm CPU Specific Build Macros
2=============================
3
4This document describes the various build options present in the CPU specific
5operations framework to enable errata workarounds and to enable optimizations
6for a specific CPU on a platform.
7
8Security Vulnerability Workarounds
9----------------------------------
10
11TF-A exports a series of build flags which control which security
12vulnerability workarounds should be applied at runtime.
13
14-  ``WORKAROUND_CVE_2017_5715``: Enables the security workaround for
15   `CVE-2017-5715`_. This flag can be set to 0 by the platform if none
16   of the PEs in the system need the workaround. Setting this flag to 0 provides
17   no performance benefit for non-affected platforms, it just helps to comply
18   with the recommendation in the spec regarding workaround discovery.
19   Defaults to 1.
20
21-  ``WORKAROUND_CVE_2018_3639``: Enables the security workaround for
22   `CVE-2018-3639`_. Defaults to 1. The TF-A project recommends to keep
23   the default value of 1 even on platforms that are unaffected by
24   CVE-2018-3639, in order to comply with the recommendation in the spec
25   regarding workaround discovery.
26
27-  ``DYNAMIC_WORKAROUND_CVE_2018_3639``: Enables dynamic mitigation for
28   `CVE-2018-3639`_. This build option should be set to 1 if the target
29   platform contains at least 1 CPU that requires dynamic mitigation.
30   Defaults to 0.
31
32.. _arm_cpu_macros_errata_workarounds:
33
34CPU Errata Workarounds
35----------------------
36
37TF-A exports a series of build flags which control the errata workarounds that
38are applied to each CPU by the reset handler. The errata details can be found
39in the CPU specific errata documents published by Arm:
40
41-  `Cortex-A53 MPCore Software Developers Errata Notice`_
42-  `Cortex-A57 MPCore Software Developers Errata Notice`_
43-  `Cortex-A72 MPCore Software Developers Errata Notice`_
44
45The errata workarounds are implemented for a particular revision or a set of
46processor revisions. This is checked by the reset handler at runtime. Each
47errata workaround is identified by its ``ID`` as specified in the processor's
48errata notice document. The format of the define used to enable/disable the
49errata workaround is ``ERRATA_<Processor name>_<ID>``, where the ``Processor name``
50is for example ``A57`` for the ``Cortex_A57`` CPU.
51
52Refer to :ref:`firmware_design_cpu_errata_reporting` for information on how to
53write errata workaround functions.
54
55All workarounds are disabled by default. The platform is responsible for
56enabling these workarounds according to its requirement by defining the
57errata workaround build flags in the platform specific makefile. In case
58these workarounds are enabled for the wrong CPU revision then the errata
59workaround is not applied. In the DEBUG build, this is indicated by
60printing a warning to the crash console.
61
62In the current implementation, a platform which has more than 1 variant
63with different revisions of a processor has no runtime mechanism available
64for it to specify which errata workarounds should be enabled or not.
65
66The value of the build flags is 0 by default, that is, disabled. A value of 1
67will enable it.
68
69For Cortex-A9, the following errata build flags are defined :
70
71-  ``ERRATA_A9_794073``: This applies errata 794073 workaround to Cortex-A9
72   CPU. This needs to be enabled for all revisions of the CPU.
73
74For Cortex-A15, the following errata build flags are defined :
75
76-  ``ERRATA_A15_816470``: This applies errata 816470 workaround to Cortex-A15
77   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision >= r3p0 of the CPU.
78
79-  ``ERRATA_A15_827671``: This applies errata 827671 workaround to Cortex-A15
80   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision >= r3p0 of the CPU.
81
82For Cortex-A17, the following errata build flags are defined :
83
84-  ``ERRATA_A17_852421``: This applies errata 852421 workaround to Cortex-A17
85   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r1p2 of the CPU.
86
87-  ``ERRATA_A17_852423``: This applies errata 852423 workaround to Cortex-A17
88   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r1p2 of the CPU.
89
90For Cortex-A35, the following errata build flags are defined :
91
92-  ``ERRATA_A35_855472``: This applies errata 855472 workaround to Cortex-A35
93   CPUs. This needs to be enabled only for revision r0p0 of Cortex-A35.
94
95For Cortex-A53, the following errata build flags are defined :
96
97-  ``ERRATA_A53_819472``: This applies errata 819472 workaround to all
98   CPUs. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r0p1 of Cortex-A53.
99
100-  ``ERRATA_A53_824069``: This applies errata 824069 workaround to all
101   CPUs. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r0p2 of Cortex-A53.
102
103-  ``ERRATA_A53_826319``: This applies errata 826319 workaround to Cortex-A53
104   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r0p2 of the CPU.
105
106-  ``ERRATA_A53_827319``: This applies errata 827319 workaround to all
107   CPUs. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r0p2 of Cortex-A53.
108
109-  ``ERRATA_A53_835769``: This applies erratum 835769 workaround at compile and
110   link time to Cortex-A53 CPU. This needs to be enabled for some variants of
111   revision <= r0p4. This workaround can lead the linker to create ``*.stub``
112   sections.
113
114-  ``ERRATA_A53_836870``: This applies errata 836870 workaround to Cortex-A53
115   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r0p3 of the CPU. From
116   r0p4 and onwards, this errata is enabled by default in hardware.
117
118-  ``ERRATA_A53_843419``: This applies erratum 843419 workaround at link time
119   to Cortex-A53 CPU.  This needs to be enabled for some variants of revision
120   <= r0p4. This workaround can lead the linker to emit ``*.stub`` sections
121   which are 4kB aligned.
122
123-  ``ERRATA_A53_855873``: This applies errata 855873 workaround to Cortex-A53
124   CPUs. Though the erratum is present in every revision of the CPU,
125   this workaround is only applied to CPUs from r0p3 onwards, which feature
126   a chicken bit in CPUACTLR_EL1 to enable a hardware workaround.
127   Earlier revisions of the CPU have other errata which require the same
128   workaround in software, so they should be covered anyway.
129
130-  ``ERRATA_A53_1530924``: This applies errata 1530924 workaround to all
131   revisions of Cortex-A53 CPU.
132
133For Cortex-A55, the following errata build flags are defined :
134
135-  ``ERRATA_A55_768277``: This applies errata 768277 workaround to Cortex-A55
136   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision r0p0 of the CPU.
137
138-  ``ERRATA_A55_778703``: This applies errata 778703 workaround to Cortex-A55
139   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision r0p0 of the CPU.
140
141-  ``ERRATA_A55_798797``: This applies errata 798797 workaround to Cortex-A55
142   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision r0p0 of the CPU.
143
144-  ``ERRATA_A55_846532``: This applies errata 846532 workaround to Cortex-A55
145   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r0p1 of the CPU.
146
147-  ``ERRATA_A55_903758``: This applies errata 903758 workaround to Cortex-A55
148   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r0p1 of the CPU.
149
150-  ``ERRATA_A55_1221012``: This applies errata 1221012 workaround to Cortex-A55
151   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r1p0 of the CPU.
152
153-  ``ERRATA_A55_1530923``: This applies errata 1530923 workaround to all
154   revisions of Cortex-A55 CPU.
155
156For Cortex-A57, the following errata build flags are defined :
157
158-  ``ERRATA_A57_806969``: This applies errata 806969 workaround to Cortex-A57
159   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision r0p0 of the CPU.
160
161-  ``ERRATA_A57_813419``: This applies errata 813419 workaround to Cortex-A57
162   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision r0p0 of the CPU.
163
164-  ``ERRATA_A57_813420``: This applies errata 813420 workaround to Cortex-A57
165   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision r0p0 of the CPU.
166
167-  ``ERRATA_A57_814670``: This applies errata 814670 workaround to Cortex-A57
168   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision r0p0 of the CPU.
169
170-  ``ERRATA_A57_817169``: This applies errata 817169 workaround to Cortex-A57
171   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r0p1 of the CPU.
172
173-  ``ERRATA_A57_826974``: This applies errata 826974 workaround to Cortex-A57
174   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r1p1 of the CPU.
175
176-  ``ERRATA_A57_826977``: This applies errata 826977 workaround to Cortex-A57
177   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r1p1 of the CPU.
178
179-  ``ERRATA_A57_828024``: This applies errata 828024 workaround to Cortex-A57
180   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r1p1 of the CPU.
181
182-  ``ERRATA_A57_829520``: This applies errata 829520 workaround to Cortex-A57
183   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r1p2 of the CPU.
184
185-  ``ERRATA_A57_833471``: This applies errata 833471 workaround to Cortex-A57
186   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r1p2 of the CPU.
187
188-  ``ERRATA_A57_859972``: This applies errata 859972 workaround to Cortex-A57
189   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r1p3 of the CPU.
190
191-  ``ERRATA_A57_1319537``: This applies errata 1319537 workaround to all
192   revisions of Cortex-A57 CPU.
193
194For Cortex-A72, the following errata build flags are defined :
195
196-  ``ERRATA_A72_859971``: This applies errata 859971 workaround to Cortex-A72
197   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r0p3 of the CPU.
198
199-  ``ERRATA_A72_1319367``: This applies errata 1319367 workaround to all
200   revisions of Cortex-A72 CPU.
201
202For Cortex-A73, the following errata build flags are defined :
203
204-  ``ERRATA_A73_852427``: This applies errata 852427 workaround to Cortex-A73
205   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision r0p0 of the CPU.
206
207-  ``ERRATA_A73_855423``: This applies errata 855423 workaround to Cortex-A73
208   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r0p1 of the CPU.
209
210For Cortex-A75, the following errata build flags are defined :
211
212-  ``ERRATA_A75_764081``: This applies errata 764081 workaround to Cortex-A75
213   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision r0p0 of the CPU.
214
215-  ``ERRATA_A75_790748``: This applies errata 790748 workaround to Cortex-A75
216    CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision r0p0 of the CPU.
217
218For Cortex-A76, the following errata build flags are defined :
219
220-  ``ERRATA_A76_1073348``: This applies errata 1073348 workaround to Cortex-A76
221   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r1p0 of the CPU.
222
223-  ``ERRATA_A76_1130799``: This applies errata 1130799 workaround to Cortex-A76
224   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r2p0 of the CPU.
225
226-  ``ERRATA_A76_1220197``: This applies errata 1220197 workaround to Cortex-A76
227   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r2p0 of the CPU.
228
229-  ``ERRATA_A76_1257314``: This applies errata 1257314 workaround to Cortex-A76
230   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r3p0 of the CPU.
231
232-  ``ERRATA_A76_1262606``: This applies errata 1262606 workaround to Cortex-A76
233   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r3p0 of the CPU.
234
235-  ``ERRATA_A76_1262888``: This applies errata 1262888 workaround to Cortex-A76
236   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r3p0 of the CPU.
237
238-  ``ERRATA_A76_1275112``: This applies errata 1275112 workaround to Cortex-A76
239   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r3p0 of the CPU.
240
241-  ``ERRATA_A76_1791580``: This applies errata 1791580 workaround to Cortex-A76
242   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r4p0 of the CPU.
243
244-  ``ERRATA_A76_1165522``: This applies errata 1165522 workaround to all
245   revisions of Cortex-A76 CPU. This errata is fixed in r3p0 but due to
246   limitation of errata framework this errata is applied to all revisions
247   of Cortex-A76 CPU.
248
249-  ``ERRATA_A76_1868343``: This applies errata 1868343 workaround to Cortex-A76
250   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r4p0 of the CPU.
251
252-  ``ERRATA_A76_1946160``: This applies errata 1946160 workaround to Cortex-A76
253   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revisions r3p0 - r4p1 of the CPU.
254
255For Cortex-A77, the following errata build flags are defined :
256
257-  ``ERRATA_A77_1508412``: This applies errata 1508412 workaround to Cortex-A77
258   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r1p0 of the CPU.
259
260-  ``ERRATA_A77_1925769``: This applies errata 1925769 workaround to Cortex-A77
261   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r1p1 of the CPU.
262
263-  ``ERRATA_A77_1946167``: This applies errata 1946167 workaround to Cortex-A77
264   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r1p1 of the CPU.
265
266-  ``ERRATA_A77_1791578``: This applies errata 1791578 workaround to Cortex-A77
267   CPU. This needs to be enabled for r0p0, r1p0, and r1p1, it is still open.
268
269For Cortex-A78, the following errata build flags are defined :
270
271-  ``ERRATA_A78_1688305``: This applies errata 1688305 workaround to Cortex-A78
272   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision r0p0 - r1p0 of the CPU.
273
274-  ``ERRATA_A78_1941498``: This applies errata 1941498 workaround to Cortex-A78
275   CPU. This needs to be enabled for revisions r0p0, r1p0, and r1p1 of the CPU.
276
277-  ``ERRATA_A78_1951500``: This applies errata 1951500 workaround to Cortex-A78
278   CPU. This needs to be enabled for revisions r1p0 and r1p1, r0p0 has the same
279   issue but there is no workaround for that revision.
280
281-  ``ERRATA_A78_1821534``: This applies errata 1821534 workaround to Cortex-A78
282   CPU. This needs to be enabled for revisions r0p0 and r1p0.
283
284-  ``ERRATA_A78_1952683``: This applies errata 1952683 workaround to Cortex-A78
285   CPU. This needs to be enabled for revision r0p0, it is fixed in r1p0.
286
287For Cortex-A78 AE, the following errata build flags are defined :
288
289- ``ERRATA_A78_AE_1941500`` : This applies errata 1941500 workaround to Cortex-A78
290   AE CPU. This needs to be enabled for revisions r0p0 and r0p1. This erratum is
291   still open.
292
293- ``ERRATA_A78_AE_1951502`` : This applies errata 1951502 workaround to Cortex-A78
294  AE CPU. This needs to be enabled for revisions r0p0 and r0p1. This erratum is
295  still open.
296
297For Neoverse N1, the following errata build flags are defined :
298
299-  ``ERRATA_N1_1073348``: This applies errata 1073348 workaround to Neoverse-N1
300   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision r0p0 and r1p0 of the CPU.
301
302-  ``ERRATA_N1_1130799``: This applies errata 1130799 workaround to Neoverse-N1
303   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r2p0 of the CPU.
304
305-  ``ERRATA_N1_1165347``: This applies errata 1165347 workaround to Neoverse-N1
306   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r2p0 of the CPU.
307
308-  ``ERRATA_N1_1207823``: This applies errata 1207823 workaround to Neoverse-N1
309   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r2p0 of the CPU.
310
311-  ``ERRATA_N1_1220197``: This applies errata 1220197 workaround to Neoverse-N1
312   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r2p0 of the CPU.
313
314-  ``ERRATA_N1_1257314``: This applies errata 1257314 workaround to Neoverse-N1
315   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r3p0 of the CPU.
316
317-  ``ERRATA_N1_1262606``: This applies errata 1262606 workaround to Neoverse-N1
318   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r3p0 of the CPU.
319
320-  ``ERRATA_N1_1262888``: This applies errata 1262888 workaround to Neoverse-N1
321   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r3p0 of the CPU.
322
323-  ``ERRATA_N1_1275112``: This applies errata 1275112 workaround to Neoverse-N1
324   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r3p0 of the CPU.
325
326-  ``ERRATA_N1_1315703``: This applies errata 1315703 workaround to Neoverse-N1
327   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r3p0 of the CPU.
328
329-  ``ERRATA_N1_1542419``: This applies errata 1542419 workaround to Neoverse-N1
330   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revisions r3p0 - r4p0 of the CPU.
331
332-  ``ERRATA_N1_1868343``: This applies errata 1868343 workaround to Neoverse-N1
333   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r4p0 of the CPU.
334
335-  ``ERRATA_N1_1946160``: This applies errata 1946160 workaround to Neoverse-N1
336   CPU. This needs to be enabled for revisions r3p0, r3p1, r4p0, and r4p1, for
337   revisions r0p0, r1p0, and r2p0 there is no workaround.
338
339For Neoverse N2, the following errata build flags are defined :
340
341-  ``ERRATA_N2_2002655``: This applies errata 2002655 workaround to Neoverse-N2
342   CPU. This needs to be enabled for revision r0p0 of the CPU, it is still open.
343
344For Neoverse V1, the following errata build flags are defined :
345
346-  ``ERRATA_V1_1774420``: This applies errata 1774420 workaround to Neoverse-V1
347   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revisions r0p0 and r1p0, it is fixed
348   in r1p1.
349
350-  ``ERRATA_V1_1791573``: This applies errata 1791573 workaround to Neoverse-V1
351   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revisions r0p0 and r1p0, it is fixed
352   in r1p1.
353
354-  ``ERRATA_V1_1852267``: This applies errata 1852267 workaround to Neoverse-V1
355   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revisions r0p0 and r1p0, it is fixed
356   in r1p1.
357
358-  ``ERRATA_V1_1925756``: This applies errata 1925756 workaround to Neoverse-V1
359   CPU. This needs to be enabled for r0p0, r1p0, and r1p1, it is still open.
360
361-  ``ERRATA_V1_1940577``: This applies errata 1940577 workaround to Neoverse-V1
362   CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision r1p0 and r1p1 of the
363   CPU.
364
365-  ``ERRATA_V1_1966096``: This applies errata 1966096 workaround to Neoverse-V1
366   CPU. This needs to be enabled for revisions r1p0 and r1p1 of the CPU, the
367   issue is present in r0p0 as well but there is no workaround for that
368   revision.  It is still open.
369
370-  ``ERRATA_V1_2139242``: This applies errata 2139242 workaround to Neoverse-V1
371   CPU. This needs to be enabled for revisions r0p0, r1p0, and r1p1 of the
372   CPU.  It is still open.
373
374For Cortex-A710, the following errata build flags are defined :
375
376-  ``ERRATA_A710_1987031``: This applies errata 1987031 workaround to
377   Cortex-A710 CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revisions r0p0, r1p0 and
378   r2p0 of the CPU. It is still open.
379
380-  ``ERRATA_A710_2081180``: This applies errata 2081180 workaround to
381   Cortex-A710 CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revisions r0p0, r1p0 and
382   r2p0 of the CPU. It is still open.
383
384-  ``ERRATA_A710_2055002``: This applies errata 2055002 workaround to
385   Cortex-A710 CPU. This needs to be enabled for revisions r1p0, r2p0 of the CPU
386   and is still open.
387
388-  ``ERRATA_A710_2017096``: This applies errata 2017096 workaround to
389   Cortex-A710 CPU. This needs to be enabled for revisions r0p0, r1p0 and r2p0
390   of the CPU and is still open.
391
392For Neoverse N2, the following errata build flags are defined :
393
394-  ``ERRATA_N2_2067956``: This applies errata 2067956 workaround to Neoverse-N2
395   CPU. This needs to be enabled for revision r0p0 of the CPU and is still open.
396
397-  ``ERRATA_N2_2025414``: This applies errata 2025414 workaround to Neoverse-N2
398   CPU. This needs to be enabled for revision r0p0 of the CPU and is still open.
399
400-  ``ERRATA_N2_2189731``: This applies errata 2189731 workaround to Neoverse-N2
401   CPU. This needs to be enabled for revision r0p0 of the CPU and is still open.
402
403-  ``ERRATA_N2_2138956``: This applies errata 2138956 workaround to Neoverse-N2
404   CPU. This needs to be enabled for revision r0p0 of the CPU and is still open.
405
406DSU Errata Workarounds
407----------------------
408
409Similar to CPU errata, TF-A also implements workarounds for DSU (DynamIQ
410Shared Unit) errata. The DSU errata details can be found in the respective Arm
411documentation:
412
413- `Arm DSU Software Developers Errata Notice`_.
414
415Each erratum is identified by an ``ID``, as defined in the DSU errata notice
416document. Thus, the build flags which enable/disable the errata workarounds
417have the format ``ERRATA_DSU_<ID>``. The implementation and application logic
418of DSU errata workarounds are similar to `CPU errata workarounds`_.
419
420For DSU errata, the following build flags are defined:
421
422-  ``ERRATA_DSU_798953``: This applies errata 798953 workaround for the
423   affected DSU configurations. This errata applies only for those DSUs that
424   revision is r0p0 (on r0p1 it is fixed). However, please note that this
425   workaround results in increased DSU power consumption on idle.
426
427-  ``ERRATA_DSU_936184``: This applies errata 936184 workaround for the
428   affected DSU configurations. This errata applies only for those DSUs that
429   contain the ACP interface **and** the DSU revision is older than r2p0 (on
430   r2p0 it is fixed). However, please note that this workaround results in
431   increased DSU power consumption on idle.
432
433CPU Specific optimizations
434--------------------------
435
436This section describes some of the optimizations allowed by the CPU micro
437architecture that can be enabled by the platform as desired.
438
439-  ``SKIP_A57_L1_FLUSH_PWR_DWN``: This flag enables an optimization in the
440   Cortex-A57 cluster power down sequence by not flushing the Level 1 data
441   cache. The L1 data cache and the L2 unified cache are inclusive. A flush
442   of the L2 by set/way flushes any dirty lines from the L1 as well. This
443   is a known safe deviation from the Cortex-A57 TRM defined power down
444   sequence. Each Cortex-A57 based platform must make its own decision on
445   whether to use the optimization.
446
447-  ``A53_DISABLE_NON_TEMPORAL_HINT``: This flag disables the cache non-temporal
448   hint. The LDNP/STNP instructions as implemented on Cortex-A53 do not behave
449   in a way most programmers expect, and will most probably result in a
450   significant speed degradation to any code that employs them. The Armv8-A
451   architecture (see Arm DDI 0487A.h, section D3.4.3) allows cores to ignore
452   the non-temporal hint and treat LDNP/STNP as LDP/STP instead. Enabling this
453   flag enforces this behaviour. This needs to be enabled only for revisions
454   <= r0p3 of the CPU and is enabled by default.
455
456-  ``A57_DISABLE_NON_TEMPORAL_HINT``: This flag has the same behaviour as
457   ``A53_DISABLE_NON_TEMPORAL_HINT`` but for Cortex-A57. This needs to be
458   enabled only for revisions <= r1p2 of the CPU and is enabled by default,
459   as recommended in section "4.7 Non-Temporal Loads/Stores" of the
460   `Cortex-A57 Software Optimization Guide`_.
461
462- ''A57_ENABLE_NON_CACHEABLE_LOAD_FWD'': This flag enables non-cacheable
463   streaming enhancement feature for Cortex-A57 CPUs. Platforms can set
464   this bit only if their memory system meets the requirement that cache
465   line fill requests from the Cortex-A57 processor are atomic. Each
466   Cortex-A57 based platform must make its own decision on whether to use
467   the optimization. This flag is disabled by default.
468
469-  ``NEOVERSE_Nx_EXTERNAL_LLC``: This flag indicates that an external last
470   level cache(LLC) is present in the system, and that the DataSource field
471   on the master CHI interface indicates when data is returned from the LLC.
472   This is used to control how the LL_CACHE* PMU events count.
473   Default value is 0 (Disabled).
474
475--------------
476
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479.. _CVE-2017-5715: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5715
480.. _CVE-2018-3639: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-3639
481.. _Cortex-A53 MPCore Software Developers Errata Notice: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.epm048406/index.html
482.. _Cortex-A57 MPCore Software Developers Errata Notice: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.epm049219/index.html
483.. _Cortex-A72 MPCore Software Developers Errata Notice: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.epm012079/index.html
484.. _Cortex-A57 Software Optimization Guide: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.uan0015b/Cortex_A57_Software_Optimization_Guide_external.pdf
485.. _Arm DSU Software Developers Errata Notice: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.epm138168/index.html
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