From: Nick Chan <towinchenmi@gmail.com>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: asahi@lists.linux.dev, Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
Nick Chan <towinchenmi@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/2] Disable 32-bit EL0 for Apple A10(X), T2
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2024 17:09:58 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240909091425.16258-1-towinchenmi@gmail.com> (raw)
Hi,
Apple's A10(X), T2 SoCs consists of pairs of performance and efficiency
cores. However, only one of the core types may be active at a given time,
and to software, it appears as logical cores that could switch between
P-mode and E-mode, depending on the p-state.
Unforunately, only the performance cores can execute 32-bit EL0. To
software, this results in logical cores that lose ability to execute
32-bit EL0 when the p-state is below a certain value.
Since these CPU cores only supported 16K pages, many AArch32
executables will not run anyways. This series disables 32-bit EL0 for
these SoCs.
Changes since v1:
- Drop #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_APPLE, the code to disable NV1 on M2 does
not use it either.
- Added comment to explain why 32-bit EL0 have to be disabled.
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/asahi/20240906171449.324354-1-towinchenmi@gmail.com
Nick Chan
---
Nick Chan (2):
arm64: cputype: Add CPU types for A7-A11, T2 SoCs
arm64: cpufeature: Pretend that Apple A10 family does not support
32-bit EL0
arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------
arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
base-commit: 9aaeb87ce1e966169a57f53a02ba05b30880ffb8
--
2.46.0
next reply other threads:[~2024-09-09 9:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-09-09 9:09 Nick Chan [this message]
2024-09-09 9:09 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] arm64: cputype: Add CPU types for A7-A11, T2 SoCs Nick Chan
2024-09-09 9:10 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] arm64: cpufeature: Pretend that Apple A10 family does not support 32-bit EL0 Nick Chan
2024-09-16 13:41 ` Nick Chan
2024-09-16 15:30 ` Catalin Marinas
2024-09-16 16:00 ` Nick Chan
2024-09-16 16:24 ` Catalin Marinas
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