[PATCH v3 03/25] arm64: cpufeature: add Permission Overlay Extension cpucap

Joey Gouly joey.gouly at arm.com
Fri Nov 24 08:34:48 PST 2023


This indicates if the system supports POE. This is a CPUCAP_BOOT_CPU_FEATURE
as the boot CPU will enable POE if it has it, so secondary CPUs must also
have this feature.

Add a new config option: ARM64_POE

Signed-off-by: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly at arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/Kconfig             | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c |  9 +++++++++
 arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps       |  1 +
 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 7b071a00425d..d7df6c603190 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -2078,6 +2078,22 @@ config ARM64_EPAN
 	  if the cpu does not implement the feature.
 endmenu # "ARMv8.7 architectural features"
 
+menu "ARMv8.9 architectural features"
+config ARM64_POE
+	prompt "Permission Overlay Extension"
+	def_bool y
+	help
+	  The Permission Overlay Extension is used to implement Memory
+	  Protection Keys. Memory Protection Keys provides a mechanism for
+	  enforcing page-based protections, but without requiring modification
+	  of the page tables when an application changes protection domains.
+
+	  For details, see Documentation/core-api/protection-keys.rst
+
+	  If unsure, say y.
+
+endmenu # "ARMv8.9 architectural features"
+
 config ARM64_SVE
 	bool "ARM Scalable Vector Extension support"
 	default y
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index 646591c67e7a..00b6d516ed3f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -2731,6 +2731,15 @@ static const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities arm64_features[] = {
 		.matches = has_cpuid_feature,
 		ARM64_CPUID_FIELDS(ID_AA64MMFR2_EL1, EVT, IMP)
 	},
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_POE
+	{
+		.desc = "Stage-1 Permission Overlay Extension (S1POE)",
+		.capability = ARM64_HAS_S1POE,
+		.type = ARM64_CPUCAP_BOOT_CPU_FEATURE,
+		.matches = has_cpuid_feature,
+		ARM64_CPUID_FIELDS(ID_AA64MMFR3_EL1, S1POE, IMP)
+	},
+#endif
 	{},
 };
 
diff --git a/arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps b/arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps
index b98c38288a9d..bbd2fac9345a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps
+++ b/arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ HAS_NESTED_VIRT
 HAS_NO_HW_PREFETCH
 HAS_PAN
 HAS_S1PIE
+HAS_S1POE
 HAS_RAS_EXTN
 HAS_RNG
 HAS_SB
-- 
2.25.1




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