[PATCH v3 10/28] arm64/sve: Low-level CPU setup

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed Oct 11 07:30:42 PDT 2017


On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 07:38:27PM +0100, Dave P Martin wrote:
> To enable the kernel to use SVE, SVE traps from EL1 to EL2 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.)
> 
> Traps from EL0 to EL1 are also left enabled by virtue of setting
> the relevant CPACR bit at its default (RES0) value.
> 
> This patch makes the appropriate changes to the primary and
> secondary CPU initialisation code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin at arm.com>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee at linaro.org>

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>



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