[boot-wrapper PATCH] aarch64: Do not trap PMSNEVFR_EL1

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Wed Aug 18 07:12:56 PDT 2021


On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 05:34:20PM +0100, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
> FEAT_PMUv1p2 adds a new register, PMSNEVFR_EL1, and a new MDCR_EL3 trap bit
> for it, EnPMSN. Set the bit to 1 to allow lower exception levels direct
> access to the register.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei at arm.com>

Thanks for this; I have a couple of minor comments below, which I'll fix
up when applying.

> ---
>  arch/aarch64/boot.S | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/aarch64/boot.S b/arch/aarch64/boot.S
> index 2215f7ed3a1f..8951f1e4676a 100644
> --- a/arch/aarch64/boot.S
> +++ b/arch/aarch64/boot.S
> @@ -88,8 +88,12 @@ ASM_FUNC(_start)
>  	cbz	x1, 1f
>  
>  	// Enable SPE for the non-secure world.
> -	ldr	x1, =(0x3 << 12)
> -	orr	x0, x0, x1
> +	ldr	x2, =(0x3 << 12)
> +	orr	x0, x0, x2

Since we're touching this, I'll make it:

	orr	x0, x0, #(3 << 12)

> +	cmp	x1, #3
> +	b.lt	1

For consistency, I'll make this `b.lt 1f`

> +	// Do not trap PMSNEVFR_EL1.
> +	orr	x0, x0, #(1 << 36)

For legibility, I'll re-order this as:

	// Do not trap PMSNEVFR_EL1 if present.
	cmp	x1, #3
	b.lt	1f
	orr	x0, x0, #(1 << 36)

Thanks,
Mark.

>  
>  1:	mrs	x1, id_aa64dfr0_el1
>  	ubfx	x1, x1, #44, #4
> -- 
> 2.32.0
> 



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