Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] arm64: Drop support for VPIPT i-cache policy

Will Deacon
2023-12-05T15:17:02Z

On Mon, 4 Dec 2023 14:36:03 +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> ARMv8.2 introduced support for VPIPT i-caches, the V standing for
> VMID-tagged. Although this looked like a reasonable idea, no
> implementation has ever made it into the wild.
>
> Linux has supported this for over 6 years (amusingly, just as the
> architecture was dropping support for AIVIVT i-caches), but we had no
> way to even test it, and it is likely that this code was just
> bit-rotting.
>
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/rip-vpipt), thanks!

[1/3] KVM: arm64: Remove VPIPT I-cache handling
https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/ced242ba9d7c
[2/3] arm64: Kill detection of VPIPT i-cache policy
https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/d8e12a0d3715
[3/3] arm64: Rename reserved values for CTR_EL0.L1Ip
https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/f35c32ca6839

Cheers,
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Will