arm64: cpufeature: Allow early filtering of feature override

Some CPUs are broken enough that some overrides need to be rejected
at the earliest opportunity. In some cases, that's right at cpu
feature override time.

Provide the necessary infrastructure to filter out overrides,
and to report such filtered out overrides to the core cpufeature code.

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210408131010.1109027-2-maz@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
index 61177bac49fa..338840c00e8e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
@@ -63,6 +63,23 @@ struct arm64_ftr_bits {
 	s64		safe_val; /* safe value for FTR_EXACT features */
 };
 
+/*
+ * Describe the early feature override to the core override code:
+ *
+ * @val			Values that are to be merged into the final
+ *			sanitised value of the register. Only the bitfields
+ *			set to 1 in @mask are valid
+ * @mask		Mask of the features that are overridden by @val
+ *
+ * A @mask field set to full-1 indicates that the corresponding field
+ * in @val is a valid override.
+ *
+ * A @mask field set to full-0 with the corresponding @val field set
+ * to full-0 denotes that this field has no override
+ *
+ * A @mask field set to full-0 with the corresponding @val field set
+ * to full-1 denotes thath this field has an invalid override.
+ */
 struct arm64_ftr_override {
 	u64		val;
 	u64		mask;