[PATCH 6/6] arm64: Remove the CONFIG_ARM64_HW_AFDBM option
Will Deacon
will.deacon at arm.com
Thu Aug 17 06:31:54 PDT 2017
On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 02:53:08PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> Since the pte handling for hardware AF/DBM works even when the hardware
> feature is not present, make the implementation permanent and remove the
> Kconfig option.
>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
> Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 17 -----------------
> arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 9 +--------
> arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/s2-setup.c | 2 +-
> arch/arm64/mm/fault.c | 2 --
> arch/arm64/mm/proc.S | 3 +--
> 5 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
Largely in favour of this, but I'd prefer to keep the option so that
we can build kernels where the enabling:
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S b/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
> index 877d42fb0df6..ba82f8bf3cf1 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
> @@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ ENTRY(__cpu_setup)
> */
> mrs x9, ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1
> bfi x10, x9, #32, #3
> -#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_HW_AFDBM
> +
> /*
> * Hardware update of the Access and Dirty bits.
> */
> @@ -246,7 +246,6 @@ ENTRY(__cpu_setup)
> orr x10, x10, #TCR_HD // hardware Dirty flag update
> 1: orr x10, x10, #TCR_HA // hardware Access flag update
> 2:
> -#endif /* CONFIG_ARM64_HW_AFDBM */
> msr tcr_el1, x10
> ret // return to head.S
> ENDPROC(__cpu_setup)
is still configurable. That might help for debugging suspected races in
this area.
Will
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