[RFC PATCH v2 00/45] arm64: Add support for FEAT_NMI
From: Vladimir Murzin <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-27 16:35:37
FEAT_NMI provides an architected mechanism for supporting non-maskable
interrupts (NMIs) and less-masked interrupts (LMIs).
Since we already support pseudo-NMIs via priority masking, introducing
another flavour of NMI on top of the existing infrastructure could
easily become messy, making the code harder to follow and reason
about.
To avoid that, this series first makes room for the new NMI "tenant"
by restructuring the existing exception masking logic.
The main idea is to separate the logical view of exception state from
its hardware representation. To achieve this, we introduce logical
exception contexts that can be mapped onto the corresponding hardware
state. This naturally consolidates the hardware-specific handling into
a small number of places, while allowing the rest of the code to
operate purely in terms of logical exception contexts.
Since this restructuring is non-trivial and carries a risk of subtle
behavioural changes, the series adds extensive debug checks to verify
that the hardware state always matches the expected logical state.
With this restructuring in place, wiring FEAT_NMI into the new
framework becomes much more manageable.
This work would not have been possible without the contributions of
Ada Couprie Diaz, Mark Brown, and Lorenzo Pieralisi - please credit
them for everything that works well. Any remaining bugs or issues are
entirely my own.
I'd especially appreciate feedback on the overall approach. Please
don't hesitate to bikeshed the naming or other details - improving
clarity is one of the main goals of this series. Of course, technical
review is more than welcome as well.
The series would also benefit from extensive testing on real hardware
(without NMI, with pseudo-NMI, and with FEAT_NMI), as most of the
testing so far has been done on QEMU and Fast Model.
Changelog
RFC v1 -> RFC v2
- Rebased on v7.2-rc5.
- Improved commit descriptions.
- Split some patches into smaller ones.
- Added a graceful fallback for IPI requests when FEAT_NMI is
supported by the CPU but unsupported by the interrupt
controller.
- Split the GICv3 preparation from the FEAT_GICv3_NMI
implementation.
- Added NMI support to GICv5, primarily as an illustration of the
implementation, although it also happens to work on Fast Model.
- Added review tags only to unchanged patches. Review tags were
intentionally dropped from modified patches to reflect those
changes and encourage re-review.
RFC v1:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20260709121333.23507-1-vladimir.murzin@arm.com/T/#m6a9321ce39d4a8b1c2111638e5dde827336f355d (local)
Thanks!
Vladimir
Ada Couprie Diaz (20):
arm64: debug: don't mask DAIF for mdscr_write()
arm64: hibernate: mask DAIF before restoring hibernated kernel
arm64: suspend: rely on daif helpers to handle PMR
arm64: entry: mask DAIF before returning from C EL1 handlers
irqchip/gic-v3: make the unmasking of pseudo-NMIs explicit when
handling IRQs
arm64: irqflags: Introduce arm64-specific irqflags type
arm64: irqflags: save and use both DAIF and PMR
arm64: interrupts: Add common exception state helpers
arm64: entry: Introduce entry specific exception masking helpers
arm64: entry: replace DAIF helpers with entry helpers
arm64: interrupts: Introduce exception masking save/restore helpers
arm64: interrupts: introduce a helper for GIC priority initialization
arm64: replace local_daif helpers
arm64: cpuidle: use new helpers to bypass interrupt priority masking
arm64: remove daifflags.h
arm64: gicv3: remove GIC_PRIO_PSR_I_SET
arm64: ptrace: Add PSR_ALLINT_BIT
arm64: cpufeature: Detect PE support for FEAT_NMI
arm64: nmi: Manage masking for superpriority interrupts
arm64: irq: Report FEAT_NMI masking local IRQs
Lorenzo Pieralisi (2):
irqchip/gic-v3: Prepare for FEAT_GICv3_NMI support
irqchip/gic-v3: Implement FEAT_GICv3_NMI support
Mark Brown (5):
arm64: booting: Document boot requirements for FEAT_NMI
arm64: sysreg: Add definitions for immediate versions of MSR ALLINT
arm64: idreg: Add an override for FEAT_NMI
arm64: nmi: Add handling of superpriority interrupts as NMIs
arm64: nmi: Add Kconfig for NMI
Vladimir Murzin (18):
arm64: ptrace: Remove INIT_PSTATE_EL2
arm64: hibernate: Restore DAIF state on error
arm64: suspend: Initialize PMR on resume
arm64: entry: Avoid unnecessary local_irq_disable() on kernel exit
arm64: process: Use helper to check exception state
arm64: cpufeature: Remove system_has_prio_mask_debugging()
arm64: irqflags: Switch to CONFIG_DEBUG_IRQFLAGS
arm64: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_ARM64_DEBUG_PRIORITY_MASKING
efi/runtime-wrappers: Permit architectures to override IRQ flags
checks
arm64/efi: Implement override for IRQ flags checks
arm64: suspend: Always initialise PSTATE.ALLINT
arm64/efi: Add ALLINT to IRQ flags checks
arm64: kprobes: Disable NMIs
arm64: smp: Abstract SGI and LPI operations
arm64: smp: Fall back to IRQ when IPI NMI request fails
arm64: smp: Add NMI support for LPI-backed IPIs
irqchip/gic-v5: Add NMI support for PPIs, SPIs and LPIs
irqchip/gic-v5: Add NMI support for IPIs
Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst | 6 +
arch/arm/include/asm/arch_gicv3.h | 6 +-
arch/arm64/Kconfig | 29 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_gicv3.h | 7 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 24 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h | 2 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 14 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/cpuidle.h | 18 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/daifflags.h | 144 --------
arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h | 42 ++-
arch/arm64/include/asm/entry-common.h | 10 +-
.../include/asm/interrupts/common_flags.h | 259 +++++++++++++
arch/arm64/include/asm/interrupts/entry.h | 119 ++++++
arch/arm64/include/asm/interrupts/masking.h | 170 +++++++++
arch/arm64/include/asm/irqflags.h | 149 ++++----
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 -
arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 1 -
arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h | 27 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h | 2 +
arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h | 1 +
arch/arm64/kernel/acpi.c | 15 +-
arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 68 +++-
arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c | 4 -
arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c | 347 +++++++++++++-----
arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S | 18 +-
arch/arm64/kernel/hibernate.c | 26 +-
arch/arm64/kernel/irq.c | 45 ++-
arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c | 4 +-
arch/arm64/kernel/pi/idreg-override.c | 1 +
arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c | 24 +-
arch/arm64/kernel/process.c | 24 +-
arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c | 4 +-
arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c | 1 -
arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c | 230 ++++++++----
arch/arm64/kernel/suspend.c | 26 +-
arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c | 1 -
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/switch.c | 2 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vgic-v3-sr.c | 7 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vhe/switch.c | 14 +-
arch/arm64/mm/fault.c | 1 -
arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 7 +-
arch/arm64/mm/proc.S | 7 +
arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps | 2 +
drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c | 32 +-
drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c | 137 ++++++-
drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v5.c | 244 +++++++++++-
include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3-prio.h | 8 -
include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h | 4 +
kernel/irq/handle.c | 3 +-
kernel/irq/manage.c | 11 +-
50 files changed, 1734 insertions(+), 614 deletions(-)
delete mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/daifflags.h
create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/interrupts/common_flags.h
create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/interrupts/entry.h
create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/interrupts/masking.h
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