Re: [PATCH v6 02/21] arm64: Allow mismatched 32-bit EL0 support

From: Will Deacon
Date: Mon May 24 2021 - 08:10:13 EST


On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 11:41:56AM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 10:47:06AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > +static int enable_mismatched_32bit_el0(unsigned int cpu)
> > +{
> > + struct cpuinfo_arm64 *info = &per_cpu(cpu_data, cpu);
> > + bool cpu_32bit = id_aa64pfr0_32bit_el0(info->reg_id_aa64pfr0);
> > +
> > + if (cpu_32bit) {
> > + cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, cpu_32bit_el0_mask);
> > + static_branch_enable_cpuslocked(&arm64_mismatched_32bit_el0);
>
> It may be worth only calling static_branch_enable_cpuslocked() if not
> already set, in case you try this on a system with lots of CPUs.

static_key_enable_cpuslocked() already checks this early on, so I don't
think we need another check here (note that we're not calling stop_machine()
here _anyway_; the '_cpuslocked' suffix just says that we're already holding
cpu_hotplug_lock via the notifier).

Will