[PATCH v2 1/2] arm64: Add override for MMFR1.HAFDBS
Robin Murphy
robin.murphy at arm.com
Thu Jul 23 07:19:43 PDT 2026
In general it might be nice to have the ability to disable hardware
access/dirty bit management for debugging or performance comparison
purposes without having to rebuild the kernel. However once FEAT_HAFT
comes into the picture we also start to have a real functional concern
where the decision to use HAFT based on the boot CPUs can prevent SVA
or late-onlining if SMMUs/CPUs are later found to lack HAFT support.
To that end, add the appropriate MMFR1 override, with an easy "nohaft"
alias for the significant case, partly since the feature/field naming
isn't the most obvious, but also so it could potentially be redirected
if someone wanted to attempt a higher-level means of turning off just
HAFT usage independently from FEAT_HDBSS in future.
Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com>
---
v2: New
OK, turns out this was actually incredibly easy, thanks Marc for
making the framework so idiot-proof!
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 +++
arch/arm64/kernel/pi/idreg-override.c | 2 ++
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index b5493a7f8f22..7f23e5b8dc44 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -565,6 +565,9 @@ Kernel parameters
arm64.nogcs [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Guarded Control Stack
support
+ arm64.nohaft [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Hardware managed Access
+ Flag for Table descriptors support
+
arm64.nomops [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory
Set instructions support
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/pi/idreg-override.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/pi/idreg-override.c
index bc57b290e5e7..0e051fec5afe 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/pi/idreg-override.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/pi/idreg-override.c
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ static const struct ftr_set_desc mmfr1 __prel64_initconst = {
.override = &id_aa64mmfr1_override,
.fields = {
FIELD("vh", ID_AA64MMFR1_EL1_VH_SHIFT, mmfr1_vh_filter),
+ FIELD("hafdbs", ID_AA64MMFR1_EL1_HAFDBS_SHIFT, NULL),
{}
},
};
@@ -246,6 +247,7 @@ static const struct {
{ "arm64.nomte", "id_aa64pfr1.mte=0" },
{ "nokaslr", "arm64_sw.nokaslr=1" },
{ "rodata=off", "arm64_sw.rodataoff=1" },
+ { "arm64.nohaft", "id_aa64mmfr1.hafdbs=2" },
{ "arm64.nolva", "id_aa64mmfr2.varange=0" },
{ "arm64.no32bit_el0", "id_aa64pfr0.el0=1" },
{ "arm64.nompam", "id_aa64pfr0.mpam=0 id_aa64pfr1.mpam_frac=0" },
--
2.54.0.dirty
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