[PATCH v2 05/20] arm64: capabilities: Add flags to handle the conflicts on late CPU

Suzuki K Poulose Suzuki.Poulose at arm.com
Wed Feb 7 08:53:02 PST 2018


On 07/02/18 11:31, Robin Murphy wrote:
> On 07/02/18 10:38, Dave Martin wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 06:27:52PM +0000, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:

...

>>> Case (b) is not permitted for errata work arounds which requires some work
>>> around, which cannot be delayed. And we ignore (b) for features. Here, yet
>>
>> Nit, maybe:
>>
>> "Case (b) is not permitted for any errata workaround that cannot be
>> activated if the kernel has finished booting and has not already enabled
>> it."
> 
> Nit^2: I think it would suffice to say "...that cannot be activated after the kernel has finished booting." - since we don't really have the concept of *de*activating workarounds, it is already implicit in that statement that the one in question wasn't activated *before* the kernel finished booting.

Robin, Dave,

I have updated the comments accordingly.

Thanks a lot for the review

Suzuki



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