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From: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>
To: "Zhou Wang" <wangzhou1@hisilicon.com>,
	"Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	"Will Deacon" <will@kernel.org>, "Marc Zyngier" <maz@kernel.org>,
	"Oliver Upton" <oliver.upton@linux.dev>,
	"Joey Gouly" <joey.gouly@arm.com>,
	"Suzuki K Poulose" <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
	"Zenghui Yu" <yuzenghui@huawei.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev,
	yangyccccc@gmail.com, prime.zeng@hisilicon.com,
	xuwei5@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/7] Add support for FEAT_{LS64, LS64_V} and related tests
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 18:22:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2a880d79-9205-45d1-8f8d-9f028e0bbfb2@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251024090819.4097819-1-wangzhou1@hisilicon.com>

On Fri, Oct 24, 2025, at 11:08, Zhou Wang wrote:
> Armv8.7 introduces single-copy atomic 64-byte loads and stores
> instructions and its variants named under FEAT_{LS64, LS64_V}.
> Add support for Armv8.7 FEAT_{LS64, LS64_V}:
> - Add identifying and enabling in the cpufeature list
> - Expose the support of these features to userspace through HWCAP3 and cpuinfo
> - Add related hwcap test
> - Handle the trap of unsupported memory (normal/uncacheable) access in a VM
>
> A real scenario for this feature is that the userspace driver can make use of
> this to implement direct WQE (workqueue entry) - a mechanism to fill WQE
> directly into the hardware.
>
> Picked Marc's 2 patches form [1] for handling the LS64 trap in a VM on emulated
> MMIO and the introduce of KVM_EXIT_ARM_LDST64B.
>
> As Yicong has left HiSilicon, I will help to continue to upstream this patchset.
>
> [1] 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20240815125959.2097734-1-maz@kernel.org/

The patches all look reasonable to me, but I notice that you forgot
to add your signoff below Yicong's, so the Arm maintainers won't be
able to merge the series.

If nobody else has any comments on this version, please resend in
a couple of days with your signoff added to each patch.

     Arnd

  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-10-24 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-10-24  9:08 [PATCH v6 0/7] Add support for FEAT_{LS64, LS64_V} and related tests Zhou Wang
2025-10-24  9:08 ` [PATCH v6 1/7] KVM: arm64: Add exit to userspace on {LD,ST}64B* outside of memslots Zhou Wang
2025-10-24  9:08 ` [PATCH v6 2/7] KVM: arm64: Add documentation for KVM_EXIT_ARM_LDST64B Zhou Wang
2025-10-24  9:08 ` [PATCH v6 3/7] KVM: arm64: Handle DABT caused by LS64* instructions on unsupported memory Zhou Wang
2025-10-24 19:54   ` Oliver Upton
2025-10-25 10:11     ` Zhou Wang
2025-10-24  9:08 ` [PATCH v6 4/7] arm64: Provide basic EL2 setup for FEAT_{LS64, LS64_V} usage at EL0/1 Zhou Wang
2025-10-24  9:08 ` [PATCH v6 5/7] arm64: Add support for FEAT_{LS64, LS64_V} Zhou Wang
2025-10-24  9:08 ` [PATCH v6 6/7] KVM: arm64: Enable FEAT_{LS64, LS64_V} in the supported guest Zhou Wang
2025-10-24  9:08 ` [PATCH v6 7/7] kselftest/arm64: Add HWCAP test for FEAT_{LS64, LS64_V} Zhou Wang
2025-10-24 16:18   ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-10-25 10:06     ` Zhou Wang
2025-10-26 21:56       ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-10-27  2:50       ` Zhou Wang
2025-10-27  6:57         ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-10-24 16:22 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2025-10-25  8:42   ` [PATCH v6 0/7] Add support for FEAT_{LS64, LS64_V} and related tests Zhou Wang
2025-10-26 21:59     ` Arnd Bergmann

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