linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 09/22] arm64: capabilities: Split the processing of errata work arounds

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Date:   Fri,  9 Feb 2018 17:54:48 +0000
From:   Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
To:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     dave.martin@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        will.deacon@....com, catalin.marinas@....com, marc.zyngier@....com,
        mark.rutland@....com, jnair@...iumnetworks.com,
        ckadabi@...eaurora.org, robin.murphy@....com,
        ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 09/22] arm64: capabilities: Split the processing of errata work arounds

Right now we run through the errata workarounds check on all boot
active CPUs, with SCOPE_ALL. This doesn't help with detecting the
errata's with a SYSTEM_SCOPE. While nobody uses it, let us clean
this up in preparation for merging capability handling.

So, we run the checks with SCOPE_LOCAL_CPU on all CPUs and SCOPE_SYSTEM
checks are run only once after all the boot time CPUs are active.

Cc: Dave Martin <dave.martin@....com>
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index 9f52678a4df1..a6e124063e21 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ void __init init_cpu_features(struct cpuinfo_arm64 *info)
 	 * Run the errata work around checks on the boot CPU, once we have
 	 * initialised the cpu feature infrastructure.
 	 */
-	update_cpu_capabilities(arm64_errata, SCOPE_ALL,
+	update_cpu_capabilities(arm64_errata, SCOPE_LOCAL_CPU,
 				"enabling workaround for");
 }
 
@@ -1416,7 +1416,7 @@ void check_local_cpu_capabilities(void)
 	 * advertised capabilities.
 	 */
 	if (!sys_caps_initialised)
-		update_cpu_capabilities(arm64_errata, SCOPE_ALL,
+		update_cpu_capabilities(arm64_errata, SCOPE_LOCAL_CPU,
 					"enabling workaround for");
 	else
 		verify_local_cpu_capabilities();
@@ -1446,6 +1446,8 @@ void __init setup_cpu_features(void)
 	/* Set the CPU feature capabilies */
 	update_cpu_capabilities(arm64_features, SCOPE_ALL,
 				"detected feature:");
+	update_cpu_capabilities(arm64_errata, SCOPE_SYSTEM,
+				"enabling workaround for");
 	enable_cpu_capabilities(arm64_features, SCOPE_ALL);
 	enable_cpu_capabilities(arm64_errata, SCOPE_ALL);
 	mark_const_caps_ready();
-- 
2.14.3