[PATCH v4 09/22] arm64: capabilities: Split the processing of errata work arounds

Suzuki K Poulose Suzuki.Poulose at arm.com
Thu Mar 22 09:44:51 PDT 2018


On 13/03/18 11:51, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> Right now we run through the errata workarounds check on all boot
> active CPUs, with SCOPE_ALL. This wouldn't help for detecting erratum
> workarounds with a SYSTEM_SCOPE. There are none yet, but we plan to
> introduce some: let us clean this up so that such workarounds can be
> detected and enabled correctly.
> 
> So, we run the checks with SCOPE_LOCAL_CPU on all CPUs and SCOPE_SYSTEM
> checks are run only once after all the boot time CPUs are active.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>


Changes since v3
  - Reworded commit description
  - Added Reviewed-by tag from Dave



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