[PATCH v4 3/7] arm64/Kconfig: add LSUI Kconfig
Mark Rutland
mark.rutland at arm.com
Mon Jul 21 03:52:16 PDT 2025
On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 09:36:14AM +0100, Yeoreum Yun wrote:
> Since Armv9.6, FEAT_LSUI supplies the load/store instructions for
> previleged level to access to access user memory without clearing
> PSTATE.PAN bit.
> It's enough to add CONFIG_AS_HAS_LSUI only because the code for LUSI uses
Nit: s/LUSI/LSUI/
> indiviual `.arch_extension` entries.
Nit: s/indiviual/individual/
>
> Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun at arm.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 9 +++++++++
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index 393d71124f5d..c0beb44ed5b8 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -2238,6 +2238,15 @@ config ARM64_GCS
>
> endmenu # "v9.4 architectural features"
>
> +config AS_HAS_LSUI
> + def_bool $(as-instr,.arch_extension lsui)
> + help
> + Unprivileged Load Store is an extension to introduce unprivileged
> + variants of load and store instructions so that clearing PSTATE.PAN
> + is never required in privileged mode.
> + This feature is available with clang version 20 and later and not yet
> + supported by gcc.
I don't think we need to describe the feature in detail for the AS_HAS_*
config symbol; I think all we need to say is:
Supported by LLVM 20 and later, not yet supported by GNU AS.
Otherwise this looks fine.
Mark.
> +
> config ARM64_SVE
> bool "ARM Scalable Vector Extension support"
> default y
> --
> LEVI:{C3F47F37-75D8-414A-A8BA-3980EC8A46D7}
>
>
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