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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 16 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt | 16 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt | 41 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/sve.txt | 17 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/robust-futexes.txt | 3 |
7 files changed, 84 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst index b8d0bc07ed0a..0124980dca2d 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst @@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ parameter is applicable:: APIC APIC support is enabled. APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled. ARM ARM architecture is enabled. + ARM64 ARM64 architecture is enabled. AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled. CLK Common clock infrastructure is enabled. CMA Contiguous Memory Area support is enabled. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 3c0646e28488..fd03e2b629bb 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2548,8 +2548,8 @@ http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git mitigations= - [X86,PPC,S390] Control optional mitigations for CPU - vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, + [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for + CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, arch-independent options, each of which is an aggregation of existing arch-specific options. @@ -2558,11 +2558,13 @@ improves system performance, but it may also expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] + kpti=0 [ARM64] nospectre_v1 [PPC] nobp=0 [S390] - nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390] + nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] spectre_v2_user=off [X86] spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] + ssbd=force-off [ARM64] l1tf=off [X86] auto (default) @@ -2908,10 +2910,10 @@ check bypass). With this option data leaks are possible in the system. - nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2 - (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may - allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent - to spectre_v2=off. + nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for + the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) + vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this + option. nospec_store_bypass_disable [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt b/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt index d4b4dd1fe786..684a0da39378 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt @@ -209,6 +209,22 @@ infrastructure: | AT | [35-32] | y | x--------------------------------------------------x + 6) ID_AA64ZFR0_EL1 - SVE feature ID register 0 + + x--------------------------------------------------x + | Name | bits | visible | + |--------------------------------------------------| + | SM4 | [43-40] | y | + |--------------------------------------------------| + | SHA3 | [35-32] | y | + |--------------------------------------------------| + | BitPerm | [19-16] | y | + |--------------------------------------------------| + | AES | [7-4] | y | + |--------------------------------------------------| + | SVEVer | [3-0] | y | + x--------------------------------------------------x + Appendix I: Example --------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt b/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt index 13d6691b37be..b73a2519ecf2 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt @@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ architected discovery mechanism available to userspace code at EL0. The kernel exposes the presence of these features to userspace through a set of flags called hwcaps, exposed in the auxilliary vector. -Userspace software can test for features by acquiring the AT_HWCAP entry -of the auxilliary vector, and testing whether the relevant flags are -set, e.g. +Userspace software can test for features by acquiring the AT_HWCAP or +AT_HWCAP2 entry of the auxiliary vector, and testing whether the relevant +flags are set, e.g. bool floating_point_is_present(void) { @@ -135,6 +135,10 @@ HWCAP_DCPOP Functionality implied by ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1.DPB == 0b0001. +HWCAP2_DCPODP + + Functionality implied by ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1.DPB == 0b0010. + HWCAP_SHA3 Functionality implied by ID_AA64ISAR0_EL1.SHA3 == 0b0001. @@ -159,6 +163,30 @@ HWCAP_SVE Functionality implied by ID_AA64PFR0_EL1.SVE == 0b0001. +HWCAP2_SVE2 + + Functionality implied by ID_AA64ZFR0_EL1.SVEVer == 0b0001. + +HWCAP2_SVEAES + + Functionality implied by ID_AA64ZFR0_EL1.AES == 0b0001. + +HWCAP2_SVEPMULL + + Functionality implied by ID_AA64ZFR0_EL1.AES == 0b0010. + +HWCAP2_SVEBITPERM + + Functionality implied by ID_AA64ZFR0_EL1.BitPerm == 0b0001. + +HWCAP2_SVESHA3 + + Functionality implied by ID_AA64ZFR0_EL1.SHA3 == 0b0001. + +HWCAP2_SVESM4 + + Functionality implied by ID_AA64ZFR0_EL1.SM4 == 0b0001. + HWCAP_ASIMDFHM Functionality implied by ID_AA64ISAR0_EL1.FHM == 0b0001. @@ -194,3 +222,10 @@ HWCAP_PACG Functionality implied by ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1.GPA == 0b0001 or ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1.GPI == 0b0001, as described by Documentation/arm64/pointer-authentication.txt. + + +4. Unused AT_HWCAP bits +----------------------- + +For interoperation with userspace, the kernel guarantees that bits 62 +and 63 of AT_HWCAP will always be returned as 0. diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt b/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt index d1e2bb801e1b..68d9b74fd751 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ stable kernels. | ARM | Cortex-A76 | #1188873 | ARM64_ERRATUM_1188873 | | ARM | Cortex-A76 | #1165522 | ARM64_ERRATUM_1165522 | | ARM | Cortex-A76 | #1286807 | ARM64_ERRATUM_1286807 | +| ARM | Neoverse-N1 | #1188873 | ARM64_ERRATUM_1188873 | | ARM | MMU-500 | #841119,#826419 | N/A | | | | | | | Cavium | ThunderX ITS | #22375, #24313 | CAVIUM_ERRATUM_22375 | @@ -77,6 +78,7 @@ stable kernels. | Hisilicon | Hip0{5,6,7} | #161010101 | HISILICON_ERRATUM_161010101 | | Hisilicon | Hip0{6,7} | #161010701 | N/A | | Hisilicon | Hip07 | #161600802 | HISILICON_ERRATUM_161600802 | +| Hisilicon | Hip08 SMMU PMCG | #162001800 | N/A | | | | | | | Qualcomm Tech. | Kryo/Falkor v1 | E1003 | QCOM_FALKOR_ERRATUM_1003 | | Qualcomm Tech. | Falkor v1 | E1009 | QCOM_FALKOR_ERRATUM_1009 | diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt b/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt index 7169a0ec41d8..9940e924a47e 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt @@ -34,6 +34,23 @@ model features for SVE is included in Appendix A. following sections: software that needs to verify that those interfaces are present must check for HWCAP_SVE instead. +* On hardware that supports the SVE2 extensions, HWCAP2_SVE2 will also + be reported in the AT_HWCAP2 aux vector entry. In addition to this, + optional extensions to SVE2 may be reported by the presence of: + + HWCAP2_SVE2 + HWCAP2_SVEAES + HWCAP2_SVEPMULL + HWCAP2_SVEBITPERM + HWCAP2_SVESHA3 + HWCAP2_SVESM4 + + This list may be extended over time as the SVE architecture evolves. + + These extensions are also reported via the CPU ID register ID_AA64ZFR0_EL1, + which userspace can read using an MRS instruction. See elf_hwcaps.txt and + cpu-feature-registers.txt for details. + * Debuggers should restrict themselves to interacting with the target via the NT_ARM_SVE regset. The recommended way of detecting support for this regset is to connect to a target process first and then attempt a diff --git a/Documentation/robust-futexes.txt b/Documentation/robust-futexes.txt index 6c42c75103eb..6361fb01c9c1 100644 --- a/Documentation/robust-futexes.txt +++ b/Documentation/robust-futexes.txt @@ -218,5 +218,4 @@ All other architectures should build just fine too - but they won't have the new syscalls yet. Architectures need to implement the new futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() -inline function before writing up the syscalls (that function returns --ENOSYS right now). +inline function before writing up the syscalls. |