[PATCH v1 3/3] arm64: cpufeature: add Neoverse-V3AE to BBML2 allow list

From: Ryan Roberts

Date: Fri Sep 19 2025 - 10:58:45 EST


Neoverse-V3AE advertises support for BBML2 and is known to not raise
conflict aborts. So add it to the BBML2_NOABORT allow list.

However, just like Neoverse-V3, Neoverse-V3AE r0p0 and r0p1 suffer from
erratum #3053180, for which the workaround is to always observe
break-before-make requirements for affected revisions. Therefore only
add to the allow list from r0p2 onwards.

For more details see Software Developer Errata Notice (SDEN) document:
Neoverse V3AE (MP172) SDEN v9.0, erratum 3053180
https://developer.arm.com/documentation/SDEN-2615521/9-0/

Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index ef269a5a37e1..61180b211293 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -2235,6 +2235,7 @@ static bool has_bbml2_noabort(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *caps, int sco
static const struct midr_range supports_bbml2_noabort_list[] = {
MIDR_REV_RANGE(MIDR_CORTEX_X4, 0, 3, 0xf),
MIDR_REV_RANGE(MIDR_NEOVERSE_V3, 0, 2, 0xf),
+ MIDR_REV_RANGE(MIDR_NEOVERSE_V3AE, 0, 2, 0xf),
{}
};

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