[PATCH v4 15/22] arm64: capabilities: Change scope of VHE to Boot CPU feature

Dave Martin Dave.Martin at arm.com
Wed Mar 21 08:18:37 PDT 2018


On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 11:51:13AM +0000, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> We expect all CPUs to be running at the same EL inside the kernel
> with or without VHE enabled and we have strict checks to ensure
> that any mismatch triggers a kernel panic. If VHE is enabled,
> we use the feature based on the boot CPU and all other CPUs
> should follow. This makes it a perfect candidate for a cpability

Nit: capability (not worth fixing unless you respin for some other
reason though.)

> based on the boot CPU,  which should be matched by all the CPUs
> (both when is ON and OFF). This saves us some not-so-pretty
> hooks and special code, just for verifying the conflict.
> 
> The patch also makes the VHE capability entry depend on
> CONFIG_ARM64_VHE.
> 
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
> Cc: Dave Martin <dave.martin at arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>

Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin at arm.com>

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Cheers
---Dave



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