Re: [PATCH v5 09/21] arm64: cpufeature: Add global feature override facility

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Tue Jan 26 2021 - 14:23:00 EST


On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:50:07AM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Add a facility to globally override a feature, no matter what
> the HW says. Yes, this sounds dangerous, but we do respect the
> "safe" value for a given feature. This doesn't mean the user
> doesn't need to know what they are doing.
>
> Nothing uses this yet, so we are pretty safe. For now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: David Brazdil <dbrazdil@xxxxxxxxxx>

That's more readable with a single pointer.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>