[PATCH] arm64: Enable MRS emulation early

From: Suzuki K Poulose
Date: Wed Oct 04 2017 - 05:48:48 EST


Make sure the MRS emulation is enabled early enough, such that the
early userspace applications (e.g, those run from initrd) could
use the facility without crashing them.

Fixes: commit 77c97b4ee2129 ("arm64: cpufeature: Expose CPUID registers by emulation")
Reported-by: Matwey V. Kornilov <matwey.kornilov@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Martin <Dave.martin@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index 9f9e0064c8c1..276eecab6cea 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -1294,4 +1294,4 @@ static int __init enable_mrs_emulation(void)
return 0;
}

-late_initcall(enable_mrs_emulation);
+core_initcall(enable_mrs_emulation);
--
2.13.5