Re: [PATCH v5 10/21] arm64: cpufeature: Use IDreg override in __read_sysreg_by_encoding()

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Tue Jan 26 2021 - 14:17:41 EST


On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:50:08AM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> __read_sysreg_by_encoding() is used by a bunch of cpufeature helpers,
> which should take the feature override into account. Let's do that.
>
> For a good measure (and because we are likely to need to further
> down the line), make this helper available to the rest of the
> non-modular kernel.
>
> Code that needs to know the *real* features of a CPU can still
> use read_sysreg_s(), and find the bare, ugly truth.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: David Brazdil <dbrazdil@xxxxxxxxxx>

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