linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] arm64: Sort vendor-specific errata

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Date:   Tue, 5 May 2020 11:58:13 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Robert Richter <rrichter@...vell.com>,
        Wei Xu <xuwei5@...ilicon.com>, Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        linux-arm-msm <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] arm64: Sort vendor-specific errata

On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 03:06:55PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 1:57 PM Geert Uytterhoeven
> <geert+renesas@...der.be> wrote:
> >
> > Sort configuration options for vendor-specific errata by vendor, to
> > increase uniformity.
> > Move ARM64_WORKAROUND_REPEAT_TLBI up, as it is also selected by
> > ARM64_ERRATUM_1286807.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>
> 
> Looks fine to me, though I wonder if we should move the errata
> menu to a separate Kconfig file, given that it's already longer than the
> Kconfig.platforms and Kconfig.debug files at 500 lines.
> 
> Maybe a Kconfig.cpu with both the "ARMv8.x architectural features" and
> errata menus?
> 
> Either way,
> 
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de

I've queued this patch as-is on for-next/kconfig [1]. Happy to take a
follow-up moving things out into Kconfig.cpu.

Will

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git/log/?h=for-next/kconfig