[PATCH 10/27] arm64/sve: Low-level CPU setup

[Dave Martin]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 04:04:28PM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 
> Dave Martin <Dave.Martin at arm.com> writes:
> 
> > To enable the kernel to use SVE, all SVE traps from EL1 must be
> > disabled.  To take maximum advantage of the hardware, the full
> > available vector length also needs to be enabled for EL1 by
> > programming ZCR_EL2.LEN.  (The kernel will program ZCR_EL1.LEN as
> > required, but this cannot override the limit set by ZCR_EL2.)
> >
> > In advance of full SVE support being implemented for userspace, it
> > also necessary to ensure that SVE traps from EL0 are enabled.
> >
> > This patch makes the appropriate changes to the primary and
> > secondary CPU initialisation code.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin at arm.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 13 ++++++++++++-
> >  arch/arm64/mm/proc.S     | 14 ++++++++++++--
> >  2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> > index 973df7d..0ae1713 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> > @@ -514,8 +514,19 @@ CPU_LE(	movk	x0, #0x30d0, lsl #16	)	// Clear EE and E0E on LE systems
> >  	mov	x0, #0x33ff
> >  	msr	cptr_el2, x0			// Disable copro. traps to EL2
> >
> > +	/* SVE register access */
> > +	mrs	x1, id_aa64pfr0_el1
> > +	ubfx	x1, x1, #ID_AA64PFR0_SVE_SHIFT, #4
> > +	cbz	x1, 7f
> > +
> > +	bic	x0, x0, #CPTR_EL2_TZ		// Also disable SVE traps
> > +	msr	cptr_el2, x0			// Disable copro. traps
> > to EL2
> 
> It seems a shame to write to cptr_el2 twice rather than compute and
> write.
> 
> > +	isb
> 
> Especially as the second one needs an isb :-/
> 
> But I don't see a much neater way of doing it so:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee at linaro.org>

Thanks

Originally I think I did merge the CPTR writes here, but since this is
slow-path anyway, I figured it was better to keep the code simple rather
than introducing new interdependencies.

I could revisit it if someone has a strong view.

Cheers
---Dave

> 
> > +	mov	x1, #ZCR_ELx_LEN_MASK		// SVE: Enable full vector
> > +	msr_s	SYS_ZCR_EL2, x1			// length for EL1.
> > +
> >  	/* Hypervisor stub */
> > -	adr_l	x0, __hyp_stub_vectors
> > +7:	adr_l	x0, __hyp_stub_vectors
> >  	msr	vbar_el2, x0

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