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<entry>
<title>arm64/efi: add missing call to early_ioremap_reset()</title>
<updated>2015-01-08T11:57:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-08T09:54:58+00:00</published>
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The early ioremap support introduced by patch bf4b558eba92
("arm64: add early_ioremap support") failed to add a call to
early_ioremap_reset() at an appropriate time. Without this call,
invocations of early_ioremap etc. that are done too late will go
unnoticed and may cause corruption.

This is exactly what happened when the first user of this feature
was added in patch f84d02755f5a ("arm64: add EFI runtime services").
The early mapping of the EFI memory map is unmapped during an early
initcall, at which time the early ioremap support is long gone.

Fix by adding the missing call to early_ioremap_reset() to
setup_arch(), and move the offending early_memunmap() to right after
the point where the early mapping of the EFI memory map is last used.

Fixes: f84d02755f5a ("arm64: add EFI runtime services")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leif Lindholm &lt;leif.lindholm@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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The early ioremap support introduced by patch bf4b558eba92
("arm64: add early_ioremap support") failed to add a call to
early_ioremap_reset() at an appropriate time. Without this call,
invocations of early_ioremap etc. that are done too late will go
unnoticed and may cause corruption.

This is exactly what happened when the first user of this feature
was added in patch f84d02755f5a ("arm64: add EFI runtime services").
The early mapping of the EFI memory map is unmapped during an early
initcall, at which time the early ioremap support is long gone.

Fix by adding the missing call to early_ioremap_reset() to
setup_arch(), and move the offending early_memunmap() to right after
the point where the early mapping of the EFI memory map is last used.

Fixes: f84d02755f5a ("arm64: add EFI runtime services")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leif Lindholm &lt;leif.lindholm@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Provide a namespace to NCAPS</title>
<updated>2014-12-04T09:57:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fabio Estevam</name>
<email>fabio.estevam@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-04T01:17:01+00:00</published>
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Building arm64.allmodconfig leads to the following warning:

usb/gadget/function/f_ncm.c:203:0: warning: "NCAPS" redefined
 #define NCAPS (USB_CDC_NCM_NCAP_ETH_FILTER | USB_CDC_NCM_NCAP_CRC_MODE)
 ^
In file included from /home/build/work/batch/arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h:32:0,
                 from /home/build/work/batch/include/linux/clocksource.h:19,
                 from /home/build/work/batch/include/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.h:19,
                 from /home/build/work/batch/arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h:27,
                 from /home/build/work/batch/arch/arm64/include/asm/timex.h:19,
                 from /home/build/work/batch/include/linux/timex.h:65,
                 from /home/build/work/batch/include/linux/sched.h:19,
                 from /home/build/work/batch/arch/arm64/include/asm/compat.h:25,
                 from /home/build/work/batch/arch/arm64/include/asm/stat.h:23,
                 from /home/build/work/batch/include/linux/stat.h:5,
                 from /home/build/work/batch/include/linux/module.h:10,
                 from /home/build/work/batch/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_ncm.c:19:
arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h:27:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition
 #define NCAPS     2

So add a ARM64 prefix to avoid such problem.

Reported-by: Olof's autobuilder &lt;build@lixom.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam &lt;fabio.estevam@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Building arm64.allmodconfig leads to the following warning:

usb/gadget/function/f_ncm.c:203:0: warning: "NCAPS" redefined
 #define NCAPS (USB_CDC_NCM_NCAP_ETH_FILTER | USB_CDC_NCM_NCAP_CRC_MODE)
 ^
In file included from /home/build/work/batch/arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h:32:0,
                 from /home/build/work/batch/include/linux/clocksource.h:19,
                 from /home/build/work/batch/include/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.h:19,
                 from /home/build/work/batch/arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h:27,
                 from /home/build/work/batch/arch/arm64/include/asm/timex.h:19,
                 from /home/build/work/batch/include/linux/timex.h:65,
                 from /home/build/work/batch/include/linux/sched.h:19,
                 from /home/build/work/batch/arch/arm64/include/asm/compat.h:25,
                 from /home/build/work/batch/arch/arm64/include/asm/stat.h:23,
                 from /home/build/work/batch/include/linux/stat.h:5,
                 from /home/build/work/batch/include/linux/module.h:10,
                 from /home/build/work/batch/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_ncm.c:19:
arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h:27:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition
 #define NCAPS     2

So add a ARM64 prefix to avoid such problem.

Reported-by: Olof's autobuilder &lt;build@lixom.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam &lt;fabio.estevam@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Factor out fixmap initialization from ioremap</title>
<updated>2014-11-25T15:56:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Laura Abbott</name>
<email>lauraa@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-21T21:50:42+00:00</published>
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The fixmap API was originally added for arm64 for
early_ioremap purposes. It can be used for other purposes too
so move the initialization from ioremap to somewhere more
generic. This makes it obvious where the fixmap is being set
up and allows for a cleaner implementation of __set_fixmap.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott &lt;lauraa@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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The fixmap API was originally added for arm64 for
early_ioremap purposes. It can be used for other purposes too
so move the initialization from ioremap to somewhere more
generic. This makes it obvious where the fixmap is being set
up and allows for a cleaner implementation of __set_fixmap.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott &lt;lauraa@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: add cpu_capabilities bitmap</title>
<updated>2014-11-25T13:22:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andre Przywara</name>
<email>andre.przywara@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-14T15:54:07+00:00</published>
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For taking note if at least one CPU in the system needs a bug
workaround or would benefit from a code optimization, we create a new
bitmap to hold (artificial) feature bits.
Since elf_hwcap is part of the userland ABI, we keep it alone and
introduce a new data structure for that (along with some accessors).

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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For taking note if at least one CPU in the system needs a bug
workaround or would benefit from a code optimization, we create a new
bitmap to hold (artificial) feature bits.
Since elf_hwcap is part of the userland ABI, we keep it alone and
introduce a new data structure for that (along with some accessors).

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Add COMPAT_HWCAP_LPAE</title>
<updated>2014-11-17T10:43:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-17T10:37:40+00:00</published>
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Commit a469abd0f868 (ARM: elf: add new hwcap for identifying atomic
ldrd/strd instructions) introduces HWCAP_ELF for 32-bit ARM
applications. As LPAE is always present on arm64, report the
corresponding compat HWCAP to user space.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.11+
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Commit a469abd0f868 (ARM: elf: add new hwcap for identifying atomic
ldrd/strd instructions) introduces HWCAP_ELF for 32-bit ARM
applications. As LPAE is always present on arm64, report the
corresponding compat HWCAP to user space.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.11+
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Fix up /proc/cpuinfo</title>
<updated>2014-11-14T10:42:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-24T13:56:40+00:00</published>
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Commit d7a49086f263164a (arm64: cpuinfo: print info for all CPUs)
attempted to clean up /proc/cpuinfo, but due to concerns regarding
further changes was reverted in commit 5e39977edf6500fd (Revert "arm64:
cpuinfo: print info for all CPUs").

There are two major issues with the arm64 /proc/cpuinfo format
currently:

* The "Features" line describes (only) the 64-bit hwcaps, which is
  problematic for some 32-bit applications which attempt to parse it. As
  the same names are used for analogous ISA features (e.g. aes) despite
  these generally being architecturally unrelated, it is not possible to
  simply append the 64-bit and 32-bit hwcaps in a manner that might not
  be misleading to some applications.

  Various potential solutions have appeared in vendor kernels. Typically
  the format of the Features line varies depending on whether the task
  is 32-bit.

* Information is only printed regarding a single CPU. This does not
  match the ARM format, and does not provide sufficient information in
  big.LITTLE systems where CPUs are heterogeneous. The CPU information
  printed is queried from the current CPU's registers, which is racy
  w.r.t. cross-cpu migration.

This patch attempts to solve these issues. The following changes are
made:

* When a task with a LINUX32 personality attempts to read /proc/cpuinfo,
  the "Features" line contains the decoded 32-bit hwcaps, as with the
  arm port. Otherwise, the decoded 64-bit hwcaps are shown. This aligns
  with the behaviour of COMPAT_UTS_MACHINE and COMPAT_ELF_PLATFORM. In
  the absense of compat support, the Features line is empty.

  The set of hwcaps injected into a task's auxval are unaffected.

* Properties are printed per-cpu, as with the ARM port. The per-cpu
  information is queried from pre-recorded cpu information (as used by
  the sanity checks).

* As with the previous attempt at fixing up /proc/cpuinfo, the hardware
  field is removed. The only users so far are 32-bit applications tied
  to particular boards, so no portable applications should be affected,
  and this should prevent future tying to particular boards.

The following differences remain:

* No model_name is printed, as this cannot be queried from the hardware
  and cannot be provided in a stable fashion. Use of the CPU
  {implementor,variant,part,revision} fields is sufficient to identify a
  CPU and is portable across arm and arm64.

* The following system-wide properties are not provided, as they are not
  possible to provide generally. Programs relying on these are already
  tied to particular (32-bit only) boards:
  - Hardware
  - Revision
  - Serial

No software has yet been identified for which these remaining
differences are problematic.

Cc: Greg Hackmann &lt;ghackmann@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Campbell &lt;ijc@hellion.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Serban Constantinescu &lt;serban.constantinescu@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: cross-distro@lists.linaro.org
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Commit d7a49086f263164a (arm64: cpuinfo: print info for all CPUs)
attempted to clean up /proc/cpuinfo, but due to concerns regarding
further changes was reverted in commit 5e39977edf6500fd (Revert "arm64:
cpuinfo: print info for all CPUs").

There are two major issues with the arm64 /proc/cpuinfo format
currently:

* The "Features" line describes (only) the 64-bit hwcaps, which is
  problematic for some 32-bit applications which attempt to parse it. As
  the same names are used for analogous ISA features (e.g. aes) despite
  these generally being architecturally unrelated, it is not possible to
  simply append the 64-bit and 32-bit hwcaps in a manner that might not
  be misleading to some applications.

  Various potential solutions have appeared in vendor kernels. Typically
  the format of the Features line varies depending on whether the task
  is 32-bit.

* Information is only printed regarding a single CPU. This does not
  match the ARM format, and does not provide sufficient information in
  big.LITTLE systems where CPUs are heterogeneous. The CPU information
  printed is queried from the current CPU's registers, which is racy
  w.r.t. cross-cpu migration.

This patch attempts to solve these issues. The following changes are
made:

* When a task with a LINUX32 personality attempts to read /proc/cpuinfo,
  the "Features" line contains the decoded 32-bit hwcaps, as with the
  arm port. Otherwise, the decoded 64-bit hwcaps are shown. This aligns
  with the behaviour of COMPAT_UTS_MACHINE and COMPAT_ELF_PLATFORM. In
  the absense of compat support, the Features line is empty.

  The set of hwcaps injected into a task's auxval are unaffected.

* Properties are printed per-cpu, as with the ARM port. The per-cpu
  information is queried from pre-recorded cpu information (as used by
  the sanity checks).

* As with the previous attempt at fixing up /proc/cpuinfo, the hardware
  field is removed. The only users so far are 32-bit applications tied
  to particular boards, so no portable applications should be affected,
  and this should prevent future tying to particular boards.

The following differences remain:

* No model_name is printed, as this cannot be queried from the hardware
  and cannot be provided in a stable fashion. Use of the CPU
  {implementor,variant,part,revision} fields is sufficient to identify a
  CPU and is portable across arm and arm64.

* The following system-wide properties are not provided, as they are not
  possible to provide generally. Programs relying on these are already
  tied to particular (32-bit only) boards:
  - Hardware
  - Revision
  - Serial

No software has yet been identified for which these remaining
differences are problematic.

Cc: Greg Hackmann &lt;ghackmann@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Campbell &lt;ijc@hellion.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Serban Constantinescu &lt;serban.constantinescu@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: cross-distro@lists.linaro.org
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: log physical ID of boot CPU</title>
<updated>2014-11-06T17:25:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-04T10:50:16+00:00</published>
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In certain debugging scenarios it's useful to know the physical ID (i.e.
the MPIDR_EL1.Aff* fields) of the boot CPU, but we don't currently log
this as we do for 32-bit ARM kernels.

This patch makes the kernel log the physical ID of the boot CPU early in
the boot process. The CPU logical map initialisation is folded in to
smp_setup_processor_id (which contrary to its name is also called by UP
kernels). This is called before setup_arch, so should not adversely
affect existing cpu_logical_map users.

Acked-by: Sudeep Holla &lt;sudeep.holla@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Lorenzo Pieralisis &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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In certain debugging scenarios it's useful to know the physical ID (i.e.
the MPIDR_EL1.Aff* fields) of the boot CPU, but we don't currently log
this as we do for 32-bit ARM kernels.

This patch makes the kernel log the physical ID of the boot CPU early in
the boot process. The CPU logical map initialisation is folded in to
smp_setup_processor_id (which contrary to its name is also called by UP
kernels). This is called before setup_arch, so should not adversely
affect existing cpu_logical_map users.

Acked-by: Sudeep Holla &lt;sudeep.holla@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Lorenzo Pieralisis &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64/dt: add machine name to kernel call stack dump output</title>
<updated>2014-11-06T17:25:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-28T12:24:20+00:00</published>
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This installs the machine name as recorded by setup_machine_fdt()
as dump stack arch description. This results in the string to be
included in call stack dumps, as is shown here:

  ...
  Bad mode in Synchronous Abort handler detected, code 0x84000005
  CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.18.0-rc2+ #548
&gt; Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
  task: ffffffc07c870000 ti: ffffffc07c878000 task.ti: ffffffc07c878000
  PC is at 0x0
  ...

Note that systems that support DMI/SMBIOS may override this later.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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This installs the machine name as recorded by setup_machine_fdt()
as dump stack arch description. This results in the string to be
included in call stack dumps, as is shown here:

  ...
  Bad mode in Synchronous Abort handler detected, code 0x84000005
  CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.18.0-rc2+ #548
&gt; Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
  task: ffffffc07c870000 ti: ffffffc07c878000 task.ti: ffffffc07c878000
  PC is at 0x0
  ...

Note that systems that support DMI/SMBIOS may override this later.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>setup: Move unmask of async interrupts after possible earlycon setup</title>
<updated>2014-09-15T17:15:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jon Masters</name>
<email>jcm@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-26T20:23:38+00:00</published>
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The kernel wants to enable reporting of asynchronous interrupts (i.e.
System Errors) as early as possible. But if this happens too early then
any pending System Error on initial entry into the kernel may never be
reported where a user can see it. This situation will occur if the kernel
is configured with CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS set and (default or command line)
enabled, in which case the kernel will panic as intended, however the
associated logging messages indicating this failure condition will remain
only in the kernel ring buffer and never be flushed out to the (not yet
configured) console. Therefore, this patch moves the enabling of
asynchronous interrupts during early setup to as early as reasonable,
but after parsing any possible earlycon parameters setting up earlycon.

Signed-off-by: Jon Masters &lt;jcm@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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The kernel wants to enable reporting of asynchronous interrupts (i.e.
System Errors) as early as possible. But if this happens too early then
any pending System Error on initial entry into the kernel may never be
reported where a user can see it. This situation will occur if the kernel
is configured with CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS set and (default or command line)
enabled, in which case the kernel will panic as intended, however the
associated logging messages indicating this failure condition will remain
only in the kernel ring buffer and never be flushed out to the (not yet
configured) console. Therefore, this patch moves the enabling of
asynchronous interrupts during early setup to as early as reasonable,
but after parsing any possible earlycon parameters setting up earlycon.

Signed-off-by: Jon Masters &lt;jcm@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<title>Revert "arm64: cpuinfo: print info for all CPUs"</title>
<updated>2014-09-01T14:55:22+00:00</updated>
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<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
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<published>2014-09-01T14:47:19+00:00</published>
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It turns out that vendors are relying on the format of /proc/cpuinfo,
and we've even spotted out-of-tree hacks attempting to make it look
identical to the format used by arch/arm/. That means we can't afford to
churn this interface in mainline, so revert the recent reformatting of
the file for arm64 pending discussions on the list to find out what
people actually want.

This reverts commit d7a49086f263164a2c4c178eb76412d48cd671d7.

Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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It turns out that vendors are relying on the format of /proc/cpuinfo,
and we've even spotted out-of-tree hacks attempting to make it look
identical to the format used by arch/arm/. That means we can't afford to
churn this interface in mainline, so revert the recent reformatting of
the file for arm64 pending discussions on the list to find out what
people actually want.

This reverts commit d7a49086f263164a2c4c178eb76412d48cd671d7.

Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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