[PATCH v5 10/21] arm64: cpufeature: Use IDreg override in __read_sysreg_by_encoding()

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Mon Jan 25 07:19:48 EST 2021


On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:50:08AM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> __read_sysreg_by_encoding() is used by a bunch of cpufeature helpers,
> which should take the feature override into account. Let's do that.
> 
> For a good measure (and because we are likely to need to further
> down the line), make this helper available to the rest of the
> non-modular kernel.
> 
> Code that needs to know the *real* features of a CPU can still
> use read_sysreg_s(), and find the bare, ugly truth.
> 
> 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>

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



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