[PATCH 3/5] arm64: mops: Document booting requirement for HCR_EL2.MCE2

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed Oct 2 03:38:42 PDT 2024


On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 05:10:49PM +0100, Kristina Martsenko wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst b/Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst
> index b57776a68f15..db46af5b9f0f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst
> @@ -385,6 +385,9 @@ Before jumping into the kernel, the following conditions must be met:
>  
>      - HCRX_EL2.MSCEn (bit 11) must be initialised to 0b1.
>  
> +    - HCRX_EL2.MCE2 (bit 10) must be initialised to 0b1. The exception
> +      handler must set PSTATE.SS to 0b0.

That's a booting document, do we need to specify the single-step
exception?

-- 
Catalin



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