[PATCH v2] arm64: cpufeature: Remove cpu_has_fwb() check

Vladimir Murzin vladimir.murzin at arm.com
Thu Feb 24 08:47:39 PST 2022


cpu_has_fwb() is supposed to warn user is following architectural
requirement is not valid:

LoUU, bits [29:27] - Level of Unification Uniprocessor for the cache
                     hierarchy.

  Note

    When FEAT_S2FWB is implemented, the architecture requires that
    this field is zero so that no levels of data cache need to be
    cleaned in order to manage coherency with instruction fetches.

LoUIS, bits [23:21] - Level of Unification Inner Shareable for the
                      cache hierarchy.

  Note

    When FEAT_S2FWB is implemented, the architecture requires that
    this field is zero so that no levels of data cache need to be
    cleaned in order to manage coherency with instruction fetches.

It is not really clear what user have to do if assertion fires. Having
assertions about the CPU design like this inspire even more assertions
to be added and the kernel definitely is not the right place for that,
so let's remove cpu_has_fwb() altogether.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin at arm.com>
---

Changelog:

 v1 -> v2
    - It looks like v1 did not come through, so increment version to
      avoid confusion in case v1 will show up eventually 

 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index e5f23da..6d1da35 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -1775,14 +1775,6 @@ static void cpu_copy_el2regs(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *__unused)
 		write_sysreg(read_sysreg(tpidr_el1), tpidr_el2);
 }
 
-static void cpu_has_fwb(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *__unused)
-{
-	u64 val = read_sysreg_s(SYS_CLIDR_EL1);
-
-	/* Check that CLIDR_EL1.LOU{U,IS} are both 0 */
-	WARN_ON(CLIDR_LOUU(val) || CLIDR_LOUIS(val));
-}
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_PAN
 static void cpu_enable_pan(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *__unused)
 {
@@ -2144,7 +2136,6 @@ static const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities arm64_features[] = {
 		.field_pos = ID_AA64MMFR2_FWB_SHIFT,
 		.min_field_value = 1,
 		.matches = has_cpuid_feature,
-		.cpu_enable = cpu_has_fwb,
 	},
 	{
 		.desc = "ARMv8.4 Translation Table Level",
-- 
2.7.4




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