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authorPunit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com>2014-11-18 14:41:26 +0300
committerWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2014-11-20 19:34:48 +0300
commitc852f320584600a372646055d8229e063949eee7 (patch)
tree57f88ee08e59727db2ac8d305ad89f15990b4ecd /Documentation
parentbd35a4adc4131c530ec7d90242555eac7b3dbe3f (diff)
downloadlinux-c852f320584600a372646055d8229e063949eee7.tar.xz
arm64: Emulate CP15 Barrier instructions
The CP15 barrier instructions (CP15ISB, CP15DSB and CP15DMB) are deprecated in the ARMv7 architecture, superseded by ISB, DSB and DMB instructions respectively. Some implementations may provide the ability to disable the CP15 barriers by disabling the CP15BEN bit in SCTLR_EL1. If not enabled, the encodings for these instructions become undefined. To support legacy software using these instructions, this patch register hooks to - * emulate CP15 barriers and warn the user about their use * toggle CP15BEN in SCTLR_EL1 Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/legacy_instructions.txt b/Documentation/arm64/legacy_instructions.txt
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--- a/Documentation/arm64/legacy_instructions.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/legacy_instructions.txt
@@ -38,3 +38,8 @@ Supported legacy instructions
Node: /proc/sys/abi/swp
Status: Obsolete
Default: Undef (0)
+
+* CP15 Barriers
+Node: /proc/sys/abi/cp15_barrier
+Status: Deprecated
+Default: Emulate (1)