(subset) [PATCH 0/5] arm64: Survival kit for SCR_EL3.HCE==0 conditions

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Tue Aug 24 09:19:07 PDT 2021


On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 20:02:08 +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Anyone vaguely familiar with the ARMv8 architecture would quickly
> understand that entering the kernel at EL2 without enabling the HVC
> instruction is... living dangerously. But as it turns out [0], there
> is a whole range of (*cough*) "high quality" (*cough*) Broadcom
> systems out there configured exactly like that.
> 
> If you are speechless, I'm right with you.
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/misc), thanks!

[5/5] arm64: Document the requirement for SCR_EL3.HCE
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/e3849765037b

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Catalin




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