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arm64: Document boot requirements for PIE
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Features PIE and TCR2 introduce new registers, update the trap requirements
for these features.

Signed-off-by: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230606145859.697944-19-joey.gouly@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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Joey Gouly authored and Catalin Marinas committed Jun 6, 2023
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Expand Up @@ -385,6 +385,32 @@ Before jumping into the kernel, the following conditions must be met:

- HCRX_EL2.MSCEn (bit 11) must be initialised to 0b1.

For CPUs with the Extended Translation Control Register feature (FEAT_TCR2):

- If EL3 is present:

- SCR_EL3.TCR2En (bit 43) must be initialised to 0b1.

- If the kernel is entered at EL1 and EL2 is present:

- HCRX_EL2.TCR2En (bit 14) must be initialised to 0b1.

For CPUs with the Stage 1 Permission Indirection Extension feature (FEAT_S1PIE):

- If EL3 is present:

- SCR_EL3.PIEn (bit 45) must be initialised to 0b1.

- If the kernel is entered at EL1 and EL2 is present:

- HFGRTR_EL2.nPIR_EL1 (bit 58) must be initialised to 0b1.

- HFGWTR_EL2.nPIR_EL1 (bit 58) must be initialised to 0b1.

- HFGRTR_EL2.nPIRE0_EL1 (bit 57) must be initialised to 0b1.

- HFGRWR_EL2.nPIRE0_EL1 (bit 57) must be initialised to 0b1.

The requirements described above for CPU mode, caches, MMUs, architected
timers, coherency and system registers apply to all CPUs. All CPUs must
enter the kernel in the same exception level. Where the values documented
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