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From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel•org>
To: Will Deacon <will@kernel•org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm•com>,
	Sai Prakash Ranjan <saiprakash.ranjan@codeaurora•org>,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm•com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm•com>,
	Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm•com>,
	linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
	Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium•org>,
	kernel-team@android•com, kvmarm@lists•cs.columbia.edu,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] arm64: cpufeature: Add CPU capability for AArch32 EL1 support
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 09:55:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1b76993491176577567a0960a435dac0@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200414213114.2378-4-will@kernel.org>

Hi Will,

On 2020-04-14 22:31, Will Deacon wrote:
> Although we emit a "SANITY CHECK" warning and taint the kernel if we
> detect a CPU mismatch for AArch32 support at EL1, we still online the
> CPU with disastrous consequences for any running 32-bit VMs.
> 
> Introduce a capability for AArch32 support at EL1 so that late onlining
> of incompatible CPUs is forbidden.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel•org>

Definitely an improvement over the current situation, as the direct read
of ID_AA64PFR0 was always a bit dodgy. Given that I'm pretty sure these 
new
braindead SoCs are going to run an older version of the kernel, should 
we
Cc stable for this?

Otherwise:

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel•org>

         M.
-- 
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-15  8:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-14 21:31 [PATCH 0/8] Relax sanity checking for mismatched AArch32 EL1 Will Deacon
2020-04-14 21:31 ` [PATCH 1/8] arm64: cpufeature: Relax check for IESB support Will Deacon
2020-04-15 10:02   ` Suzuki K Poulose
2020-04-14 21:31 ` [PATCH 2/8] arm64: cpufeature: Spell out register fields for ID_ISAR4 and ID_PFR1 Will Deacon
2020-04-15 10:09   ` Suzuki K Poulose
2020-04-14 21:31 ` [PATCH 3/8] arm64: cpufeature: Add CPU capability for AArch32 EL1 support Will Deacon
2020-04-15  8:55   ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2020-04-15 17:00     ` Will Deacon
2020-04-15 10:13   ` Suzuki K Poulose
2020-04-15 10:14     ` Will Deacon
2020-04-15 13:15       ` Suzuki K Poulose
2020-04-15 13:22         ` Marc Zyngier
2020-04-17  9:44           ` Suzuki K Poulose
2020-04-14 21:31 ` [PATCH 4/8] arm64: cpufeature: Remove redundant call to id_aa64pfr0_32bit_el0() Will Deacon
2020-04-15 10:25   ` Suzuki K Poulose
2020-04-14 21:31 ` [PATCH 5/8] arm64: cpufeature: Factor out checking of AArch32 features Will Deacon
2020-04-15 10:36   ` Suzuki K Poulose
2020-04-14 21:31 ` [PATCH 6/8] arm64: cpufeature: Relax AArch32 system checks if EL1 is 64-bit only Will Deacon
2020-04-15 10:43   ` Suzuki K Poulose
2020-04-14 21:31 ` [PATCH 7/8] arm64: cpufeature: Relax checks for AArch32 support at EL[0-2] Will Deacon
2020-04-15 10:50   ` Suzuki K Poulose
2020-04-15 10:58     ` Will Deacon
2020-04-15 11:37       ` Suzuki K Poulose
2020-04-15 12:29         ` Will Deacon
2020-04-17  9:37           ` Suzuki K Poulose
2020-04-14 21:31 ` [PATCH 8/8] arm64: cpufeature: Add an overview comment for the cpufeature framework Will Deacon
2020-04-16 11:58   ` Will Deacon
2020-04-16 14:59   ` Suzuki K Poulose
2020-04-16 15:26     ` Marc Zyngier
2020-04-16 18:12     ` Will Deacon
2020-04-16  8:39 ` [PATCH 0/8] Relax sanity checking for mismatched AArch32 EL1 Sai Prakash Ranjan
2020-04-16 10:26   ` Sai Prakash Ranjan

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