[PATCH] arm64: cpufeature: Fix GCIE field ordering in ftr_id_aa64pfr2

Mukesh Ojha mukesh.ojha at oss.qualcomm.com
Wed Apr 15 13:00:31 PDT 2026


The ftr_id_aa64pfr2[] array must be sorted in descending order of
shift value so that the overlap validation in init_cpu_features()
works correctly. The GCIE field (bits 15:12, shift=12) was placed
last in the array, after MTEFAR (bits 11:8, shift=8) and
MTESTOREONLY (bits 7:4, shift=4), causing a spurious warning at
boot:

[    0.000000] SYS_ID_AA64PFR2_EL1 has feature overlap at shift 12
[    0.000000] WARNING: arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c:989 at init_cpu_features+0x144/0x3d0, CPU#0:
swapper/0
..

[    0.000000] pc : init_cpu_features+0x144/0x3d0
[    0.000000] lr : init_cpu_features+0x144/0x3d0
[    0.000000] sp : ffffc08678f03dc0

...
    0.000000] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffffc08678f14000
[    0.000000] Call trace:
[    0.000000]  init_cpu_features+0x144/0x3d0 (P)
[    0.000000]  cpuinfo_store_boot_cpu+0x4c/0x5c
[    0.000000]  smp_prepare_boot_cpu+0x28/0x38
[    0.000000]  start_kernel+0x1d4/0x848
[    0.000000]  __primary_switched+0x88/0x90

This is because the overlap check computes (shift + width) > prev_shift,
i.e. (12 + 4) > 8, which triggers since GCIE occupies bits above MTEFAR
but was listed after it.

Fix the ordering to match the register layout: FPMR(35:32), GCIE(15:12),
MTEFAR(11:8), MTESTOREONLY(7:4).

Fixes: 899ff451fcee ("KVM: arm64: Advertise ID_AA64PFR2_EL1.GCIE")
Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha <mukesh.ojha at oss.qualcomm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index 48f2d894101d..6d53bb15cf7b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -328,9 +328,9 @@ static const struct arm64_ftr_bits ftr_id_aa64pfr1[] = {
 
 static const struct arm64_ftr_bits ftr_id_aa64pfr2[] = {
 	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_VISIBLE, FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_AA64PFR2_EL1_FPMR_SHIFT, 4, 0),
+	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_AA64PFR2_EL1_GCIE_SHIFT, 4, ID_AA64PFR2_EL1_GCIE_NI),
 	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_VISIBLE, FTR_NONSTRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_AA64PFR2_EL1_MTEFAR_SHIFT, 4, ID_AA64PFR2_EL1_MTEFAR_NI),
 	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_VISIBLE, FTR_NONSTRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_AA64PFR2_EL1_MTESTOREONLY_SHIFT, 4, ID_AA64PFR2_EL1_MTESTOREONLY_NI),
-	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_AA64PFR2_EL1_GCIE_SHIFT, 4, ID_AA64PFR2_EL1_GCIE_NI),
 	ARM64_FTR_END,
 };
 
-- 
2.53.0




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