[PATCH v9 18/20] arm64: Hook up cmdline parameter to allow mismatched 32-bit EL0
From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-06-08 18:04:56
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arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Allow systems with mismatched 32-bit support at EL0 to run 32-bit applications based on a new kernel parameter. Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 8 ++++++++ arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index cb89dbdedc46..a2e453919bb6 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt@@ -287,6 +287,14 @@ do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. + allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64] + Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the + PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict + subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this + parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit + EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0 + and hot-unplug operations may be restricted. + amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. Possible values are:
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index 854ade5b1de1..6f4aa006f130 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c@@ -1298,6 +1298,13 @@ const struct cpumask *system_32bit_el0_cpumask(void) return cpu_possible_mask; } +static int __init parse_32bit_el0_param(char *str) +{ + allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 = true; + return 0; +} +early_param("allow_mismatched_32bit_el0", parse_32bit_el0_param); + static ssize_t aarch32_el0_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf) {
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2.32.0.rc1.229.g3e70b5a671-goog
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