linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] arm64 updates for 6.18

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Message-ID: <4016897f-42a5-bb18-4ebb-80de97f99a60@huawei.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2025 19:27:17 +0800
From: Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@...wei.com>
To: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
CC: <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<kernel-team@...roid.com>, <brauner@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] arm64 updates for 6.18

On 2025/9/27 1:13, Will Deacon wrote:
> ACPI, EFI and PSCI:
>  - Decouple Arm's "Software Delegated Exception Interface" (SDEI)
>    support from the ACPI GHES code so that it can be used by platforms
>    booted with device-tree.
> 
>  - Remove unnecessary per-CPU tracking of the FPSIMD state across EFI
>    runtime calls.
> 
>  - Fix a node refcount imbalance in the PSCI device-tree code.
> 
> CPU Features:
>  - Ensure register sanitisation is applied to fields in ID_AA64MMFR4.
> 
>  - Expose AIDR_EL1 to userspace via sysfs, primarily so that KVM guests
>    can reliably query the underlying CPU types from the VMM.
> 
>  - Re-enabling of SME support (CONFIG_ARM64_SME) as a result of fixes
>    to our context-switching, signal handling and ptrace code.

IIRC they're 6.16 stuff [*].

[*] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250528114103.GA27965@willie-the-truck

Thanks,
Zenghui