linux/Documentation/arm64
Mark Brown 230800cd31 arm64: Require that system registers at all visible ELs be initialized
Currently we require that software at a higher exception level initialise
all registers at the exception level the kernel will be entered prior to
starting the kernel in order to ensure that there is nothing uninitialised
which could result in an UNKNOWN state while running the kernel. The
expectation is that the software running at the highest exception levels
will be tightly coupled to the system and can ensure that all available
features are appropriately initialised and that the kernel can initialise
anything else.

There is a gap here in the case where new registers are added to lower
exception levels that require initialisation but the kernel does not yet
understand them. Extend the requirement to also include exception levels
below the one where the kernel is entered to cover this.

Suggested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210401180942.35815-4-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2021-04-08 18:39:18 +01:00
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acpi_object_usage.rst Documentation: arm64/acpi_object_usage: drop duplicate words 2020-07-05 14:37:45 -06:00
amu.rst Documentation: Chinese translation of Documentation/arm64/amu.rst 2020-09-28 15:24:24 -06:00
arm-acpi.rst arm64: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones 2020-07-23 14:04:37 -06:00
booting.rst arm64: Require that system registers at all visible ELs be initialized 2021-04-08 18:39:18 +01:00
cpu-feature-registers.rst arm64: mte: Add Memory Tagging Extension documentation 2020-09-04 12:46:07 +01:00
elf_hwcaps.rst Documentation: Chinese translation of Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.rst 2020-11-30 10:36:45 -07:00
features.rst docs: archis: add a per-architecture features list 2020-12-03 15:10:15 -07:00
hugetlbpage.rst Documentation: Chinese translation of Documentation/arm64/hugetlbpage.rst 2020-10-21 15:15:17 -06:00
index.rst docs: archis: add a per-architecture features list 2020-12-03 15:10:15 -07:00
kasan-offsets.sh arm64: mm: extend linear region for 52-bit VA configurations 2020-11-09 17:15:37 +00:00
legacy_instructions.rst docs: arm64: convert docs to ReST and rename to .rst 2019-06-14 14:20:27 -06:00
memory-tagging-extension.rst arm64: mte: Document that user PSTATE.TCO is ignored by kernel uaccess 2020-10-28 17:50:39 +00:00
memory.rst ARM: 2020-12-20 10:44:05 -08:00
perf.rst Documentation: Chinese translation of Documentation/arm64/perf.rst 2020-11-13 15:21:38 -07:00
pointer-authentication.rst docs: arm64: convert docs to ReST and rename to .rst 2019-06-14 14:20:27 -06:00
silicon-errata.rst arm64: Add workaround for Arm Cortex-A77 erratum 1508412 2020-10-29 12:56:01 +00:00
sve.rst It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a 2020-08-04 22:47:54 -07:00
tagged-address-abi.rst mm: Avoid creating virtual address aliases in brk()/mmap()/mremap() 2020-02-20 10:03:14 +00:00
tagged-pointers.rst arm64: expose FAR_EL1 tag bits in siginfo 2020-11-23 18:17:39 +00:00