arm64: Document boot requirements for Guarded Control Stacks
FEAT_GCS introduces a number of new system registers, we require that access to these registers is not trapped when we identify that the feature is present. There is also a HCRX_EL2 control to make GCS operations functional. Since if GCS is enabled any function call instruction will cause a fault we also require that the feature be specifically disabled, existing kernels implicitly have this requirement and especially given that the MMU must be disabled it is difficult to see a situation where leaving GCS enabled would be reasonable. Reviewed-by:Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org> Reviewed-by:
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241001-arm64-gcs-v13-6-222b78d87eee@kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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