On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 11:29:22AM -0500, Christopher Covington wrote: > On 01/31/2017 12:56 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote: > > Given that all ARMv8 CPUs can support SW_PAN, it is more likely to be > > enabled than the ARMv8.1 PAN. I'd vote for supporting the workaround in > > that case too, and hope that people do enable the HW version. > > Okay, I'll do my best to add support for the SW PAN case. I rebased and > submitted v6 of the E1009 patch [1] so that it no longer depends on this > patch landing first, if you all are inclined to pick it up while work on > this E1003 patch continues. The alternative is not enabling SW_PAN (at runtime) if this errata is present, along with a warning stating that hardware-PAN should be enabled in kconfig instead. Not sure what distributions will make of that though. > 1. https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9547923/ Yup, I queued that one locally and I'll push to -next tomorrow. Thanks, Will
