linux-stable.git/arch/arm/include/asm/virt.h, branch linux-3.7.y Linux kernel stable tree ARM: virt: Add boot-time diagnostics 2012-09-19T07:32:52+00:00 Dave Martin dave.martin@linaro.org 2012-02-17T16:54:28+00:00 4588c34daabb5aebee9cbe90f0ca6ab11412f207 In order to easily detect pathological cases, print some diagnostics when the kernel boots. This also provides helpers to detect that HYP mode is actually available, which can be used by other subsystems to enable HYP specific features. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> 
In order to easily detect pathological cases, print some diagnostics
when the kernel boots.

This also provides helpers to detect that HYP mode is actually available,
which can be used by other subsystems to enable HYP specific features.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
ARM: virt: allow the kernel to be entered in HYP mode 2012-09-19T07:32:50+00:00 Dave Martin dave.martin@linaro.org 2012-02-09T16:47:17+00:00 80c59dafb1a9a86fa996e6e34d06b60567c925ca This patch does two things: * Ensure that asynchronous aborts are masked at kernel entry. The bootloader should be masking these anyway, but this reduces the damage window just in case it doesn't. * Enter svc mode via exception return to ensure that CPU state is properly serialised. This does not matter when switching from an ordinary privileged mode ("PL1" modes in ARMv7-AR rev C parlance), but it potentially does matter when switching from a another privileged mode such as hyp mode. This should allow the kernel to boot safely either from svc mode or hyp mode, even if no support for use of the ARM Virtualization Extensions is built into the kernel. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> 
This patch does two things:

  * Ensure that asynchronous aborts are masked at kernel entry.
    The bootloader should be masking these anyway, but this reduces
    the damage window just in case it doesn't.

  * Enter svc mode via exception return to ensure that CPU state is
    properly serialised.  This does not matter when switching from
    an ordinary privileged mode ("PL1" modes in ARMv7-AR rev C
    parlance), but it potentially does matter when switching from a
    another privileged mode such as hyp mode.

This should allow the kernel to boot safely either from svc mode or
hyp mode, even if no support for use of the ARM Virtualization
Extensions is built into the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>