[PATCH v2 02/21] arm64: Document boot requirements for SME 2

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Tue Nov 1 07:33:17 PDT 2022


SME 2 introduces the new ZT0 register, we require that access to this
reigster is not trapped when we identify that the feature is supported.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
---
 Documentation/arm64/booting.rst | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/booting.rst b/Documentation/arm64/booting.rst
index 8aefa1001ae5..b69b5cb596e6 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm64/booting.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/booting.rst
@@ -360,6 +360,16 @@ Before jumping into the kernel, the following conditions must be met:
 
     - HCR_EL2.ATA (bit 56) must be initialised to 0b1.
 
+  For CPUs with the Scalable Matrix Extension version 2 (FEAT_SME2):
+
+  - If EL3 is present:
+
+    - SMCR_EL3.EZT0 (bit 30) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
+ - If the kernel is entered at EL1 and EL2 is present:
+
+    - SMCR_EL2.EZT0 (bit 30) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
 The requirements described above for CPU mode, caches, MMUs, architected
 timers, coherency and system registers apply to all CPUs.  All CPUs must
 enter the kernel in the same exception level.  Where the values documented
-- 
2.30.2




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