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Commit 237405eb authored by James Morse's avatar James Morse Committed by Catalin Marinas
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arm64: cpufeature: Force HWCAP to be based on the sysreg visible to user-space



arm64 advertises hardware features to user-space via HWCAPs, and by
emulating access to the CPUs id registers. The cpufeature code has a
sanitised system-wide view of an id register, and a sanitised user-space
view of an id register, where some features use their 'safe' value
instead of the hardware value.

It is currently possible for a HWCAP to be advertised where the user-space
view of the id register does not show the feature as supported.
Erratum workaround need to remove both the HWCAP, and the feature from
the user-space view of the id register. This involves duplicating the
code, and spreading it over cpufeature.c and cpu_errata.c.

Make the HWCAP code use the user-space view of id registers. This ensures
the values never diverge, and allows erratum workaround to remove HWCAP
by modifying the user-space view of the id register.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSuzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220909165938.3931307-2-james.morse@arm.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
parent b90cb105
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