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    arm64: Delay enabling hardware DBM feature · 05abb595
    Suzuki K Poulose authored
    We enable hardware DBM bit in a capable CPU, very early in the
    boot via __cpu_setup. This doesn't give us a flexibility of
    optionally disable the feature, as the clearing the bit
    is a bit costly as the TLB can cache the settings. Instead,
    we delay enabling the feature until the CPU is brought up
    into the kernel. We use the feature capability mechanism
    to handle it.
    
    The hardware DBM is a non-conflicting feature. i.e, the kernel
    can safely run with a mix of CPUs with some using the feature
    and the others don't. So, it is safe for a late CPU to have
    this capability and enable it, even if the active CPUs don't.
    
    To get this handled properly by the infrastructure, we
    unconditionally set the capability and only enable it
    on CPUs which really have the feature. Also, we print the
    feature detection from the "matches" call back to make sure
    we don't mislead the user when none of the CPUs could use the
    feature.
    
    Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDave Martin <dave.martin@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSuzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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