linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/8 v1.5] arm64: Always keep DAIF.[IF] in sync

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Date:   Sat, 20 Feb 2021 02:24:31 +0900
From:   Hector Martin <marcan@...can.st>
To:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8 v1.5] arm64: Always keep DAIF.[IF] in sync

On 20/02/2021 02.21, Hector Martin wrote:
> Apple SoCs (A11 and newer) have some interrupt sources hardwired to the
> FIQ line. We implement support for this by simply treating IRQs and FIQs
> the same way in the interrupt vectors.
> 
> To support these systems, the FIQ mask bit needs to be kept in sync with
> the IRQ mask bit, so both kinds of exceptions are masked together. No
> other platforms should be delivering FIQ exceptions right now, and we
> already unmask FIQ in normal process context, so this should not have an
> effect on other systems - if spurious FIQs were arriving, they would
> already panic the kernel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hector Martin <marcan@...can.st>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@....com>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
> 
Argh, sorry, I botched the trhreading. Got caught by git send-email 
prompting me on the dry-run, but not after I added a --to... Resending.

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Hector Martin (marcan@...can.st)
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