[PATCH v5 09/21] arm64: cpufeature: Add global feature override facility

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Mon Jan 25 07:15:33 EST 2021


On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:50:07AM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Add a facility to globally override a feature, no matter what
> the HW says. Yes, this sounds dangerous, but we do respect the
> "safe" value for a given feature. This doesn't mean the user
> doesn't need to know what they are doing.
> 
> Nothing uses this yet, so we are pretty safe. For now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
> Acked-by: David Brazdil <dbrazdil at google.com>

That's more readable with a single pointer.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>



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