[PATCH v2 00/11] arm64: Fully disable configured-out features

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Mon Mar 2 03:56:41 PST 2026


This is v2 of this series attempting at making the handling of
features that are disabled at compile time a bit less awkward for
non-userspace consumers of the sanitised feature bits.

A few things have changed, thanks to Fuad and Suzuki spending time on
reviewing this, but the overall behaviour is the same.

* From v1 [1]:

  - Mark ALL_HIDDEN and HIGHER_SAFE as incompatible

  - Don't update a feature that is ALL_HIDDEN (or overridden) on the
    secondary boot path

  - Reduce the size of struct arm64_ftr_bits

  - Add a helper for setting a field to its safe value

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260219195533.2455736-1-maz@kernel.org

Marc Zyngier (11):
  arm64: Skip update of an idreg field affected by an override
  arm64: Add a helper setting a feature field to its safe value
  arm64: Add logic to fully remove features from sanitised id registers
  arm64: Convert CONFIG_ARM64_PTR_AUTH to FTR_CONFIG()
  arm64: Convert CONFIG_ARM64_SVE to FTR_CONFIG()
  arm64: Convert CONFIG_ARM64_SME to FTR_CONFIG()
  arm64: Convert CONFIG_ARM64_GCS to FTR_CONFIG()
  arm64: Convert CONFIG_ARM64_MTE to FTR_CONFIG()
  arm64: Convert CONFIG_ARM64_POE to FTR_CONFIG()
  arm64: Convert CONFIG_ARM64_BTI to FTR_CONFIG()
  arm64: Remove FTR_VISIBLE_IF_IS_ENABLED()

 arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h |  15 +--
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c      | 141 +++++++++++++++++-----------
 2 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)

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