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| author |   Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> | 2019-10-02 10:06:13 +0100 |
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| committer |   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> | 2019-10-15 12:26:15 +0100 |
| commit | 7e3a57fa6ca831fa232a7cd4659eaed674236810 (patch) | |
| tree | 7fd7d5d9cbd63cc17d7901d92260b5470450f79e /Documentation | |
| parent | arm64: Relax ICC_PMR_EL1 accesses when ICC_CTLR_EL1.PMHE is clear (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-7e3a57fa6ca831fa232a7cd4659eaed674236810.tar.xz linux-dev-7e3a57fa6ca831fa232a7cd4659eaed674236810.zip | |
arm64: Document ICC_CTLR_EL3.PMHE setting requirements
It goes without saying, but better saying it: the kernel expects
ICC_CTLR_EL3.PMHE to have the same value across all CPUs, and
for that setting not to change during the lifetime of the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/booting.rst | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/booting.rst b/Documentation/arm64/booting.rst index d3f3a60fbf25..5d78a6f5b0ae 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/booting.rst +++ b/Documentation/arm64/booting.rst @@ -213,6 +213,9 @@ Before jumping into the kernel, the following conditions must be met: - ICC_SRE_EL3.Enable (bit 3) must be initialiased to 0b1. - ICC_SRE_EL3.SRE (bit 0) must be initialised to 0b1. + - ICC_CTLR_EL3.PMHE (bit 6) must be set to the same value across + all CPUs the kernel is executing on, and must stay constant + for the lifetime of the kernel. - If the kernel is entered at EL1: |