linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 1/8] arm64: cpufeature: Relax check for IESB support

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Message-Id: <20200421142922.18950-2-will@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 21 Apr 2020 15:29:15 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Sai Prakash Ranjan <saiprakash.ranjan@...eaurora.org>,
        Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>, kernel-team@...roid.com
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/8] arm64: cpufeature: Relax check for IESB support

From: Sai Prakash Ranjan <saiprakash.ranjan@...eaurora.org>

We don't care if IESB is supported or not as we always set
SCTLR_ELx.IESB and, if it works, that's really great.

Relax the ID_AA64MMFR2.IESB cpufeature check so that we don't warn and
taint if it's mismatched.

Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
Signed-off-by: Sai Prakash Ranjan <saiprakash.ranjan@...eaurora.org>
[will: rewrote commit message]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index 9fac745aa7bb..63df28e6a425 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ static const struct arm64_ftr_bits ftr_id_aa64mmfr2[] = {
 	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_AA64MMFR2_FWB_SHIFT, 4, 0),
 	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_VISIBLE, FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_AA64MMFR2_AT_SHIFT, 4, 0),
 	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_AA64MMFR2_LVA_SHIFT, 4, 0),
-	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_AA64MMFR2_IESB_SHIFT, 4, 0),
+	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_NONSTRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_AA64MMFR2_IESB_SHIFT, 4, 0),
 	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_AA64MMFR2_LSM_SHIFT, 4, 0),
 	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_AA64MMFR2_UAO_SHIFT, 4, 0),
 	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_AA64MMFR2_CNP_SHIFT, 4, 0),
-- 
2.26.1.301.g55bc3eb7cb9-goog