[PATCH 0/6] support FEAT_LSUI and apply it on futex atomic ops

Yeoreum Yun yeoreum.yun at arm.com
Wed Jun 11 03:49:10 PDT 2025


Since Armv9.6, FEAT_LSUI supplies the load/store instructions for
previleged level to access to access user memory without clearing
PSTATE.PAN bit.

This patchset support FEAT_LUSI and applies in futex atomic operation
where can replace from ldxr/stlxr pair implmentation with clearing
PSTATE.PAN bit to correspondant load/store unprevileged atomic operation
without clearing PSTATE.PAN bit.

Patch Sequences
================

Patch #1 adds cpufeature for FEAT_LUSI

Patch #2 adds Kconfig for FEAT_LUSI

Patch #3 separtes former futex atomic-op implmentation from futex.h
to futex_ll_sc_u.h

Patch #4 implments futex atomic operation using lsui instruction.

Patch #5 introduces lsui.h to apply runtime patch to use former
implmentation when FEAT_LUSI doesn't support.

Yeoreum Yun (6):
  arm64: cpufeature: add FEAT_LSUI
  arm64/Kconfig: add LSUI Kconfig
  arm64/futex: move futex atomic logic with clearing PAN bit
  arm64/futex: add futex atomic operation with FEAT_LSUI
  arm64/asm: introduce lsui.h
  arm64/futex: support futex with FEAT_LSUI

 arch/arm64/Kconfig                     |   8 +-
 arch/arm64/include/asm/futex.h         |  99 ++++++-------------
 arch/arm64/include/asm/futex_ll_sc_u.h | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/arm64/include/asm/futex_lsui.h    | 132 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/arm64/include/asm/lsui.h          |  37 +++++++
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c         |   8 ++
 arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps               |   1 +
 7 files changed, 331 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/futex_ll_sc_u.h
 create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/futex_lsui.h
 create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/lsui.h

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