Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] arm64: Add BBM Level 2 cpu feature

[Suzuki K Poulose]

On 25/03/2025 09:36, Mikołaj Lenczewski wrote:
> The Break-Before-Make cpu feature supports multiple levels (levels 0-2),
> and this commit adds a dedicated BBML2 cpufeature to test against
> support for, as well as a kernel commandline parameter to optionally
> disable BBML2 altogether.
>
> This is a system feature as we might have a big.LITTLE architecture
> where some cores support BBML2 and some don't, but we want all cores to
> be available and BBM to default to level 0 (as opposed to having cores
> without BBML2 not coming online).
>
> To support BBML2 in as wide a range of contexts as we can, we want not
> only the architectural guarantees that BBML2 makes, but additionally
> want BBML2 to not create TLB conflict aborts. Not causing aborts avoids
> us having to prove that no recursive faults can be induced in any path
> that uses BBML2, allowing its use for arbitrary kernel mappings.
> Support detection of such CPUs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mikołaj Lenczewski <miko.lenczewski@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>