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-rw-r--r--Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arch/arm64/sve.rst5
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst b/Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst
index e4f953839f71..26efca09aef3 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst
@@ -391,13 +391,13 @@ Before jumping into the kernel, the following conditions must be met:
- SMCR_EL2.LEN must be initialised to the same value for all CPUs the
kernel will execute on.
- - HWFGRTR_EL2.nTPIDR2_EL0 (bit 55) must be initialised to 0b01.
+ - HFGRTR_EL2.nTPIDR2_EL0 (bit 55) must be initialised to 0b01.
- - HWFGWTR_EL2.nTPIDR2_EL0 (bit 55) must be initialised to 0b01.
+ - HFGWTR_EL2.nTPIDR2_EL0 (bit 55) must be initialised to 0b01.
- - HWFGRTR_EL2.nSMPRI_EL1 (bit 54) must be initialised to 0b01.
+ - HFGRTR_EL2.nSMPRI_EL1 (bit 54) must be initialised to 0b01.
- - HWFGWTR_EL2.nSMPRI_EL1 (bit 54) must be initialised to 0b01.
+ - HFGWTR_EL2.nSMPRI_EL1 (bit 54) must be initialised to 0b01.
For CPUs with the Scalable Matrix Extension FA64 feature (FEAT_SME_FA64):
diff --git a/Documentation/arch/arm64/sve.rst b/Documentation/arch/arm64/sve.rst
index 28152492c29c..a61c9d0efe4d 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/arm64/sve.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/arm64/sve.rst
@@ -402,6 +402,11 @@ The regset data starts with struct user_sve_header, containing:
streaming mode and any SETREGSET of NT_ARM_SSVE will enter streaming mode
if the target was not in streaming mode.
+* On systems that do not support SVE it is permitted to use SETREGSET to
+ write SVE_PT_REGS_FPSIMD formatted data via NT_ARM_SVE, in this case the
+ vector length should be specified as 0. This allows streaming mode to be
+ disabled on systems with SME but not SVE.
+
* If any register data is provided along with SVE_PT_VL_ONEXEC then the
registers data will be interpreted with the current vector length, not
the vector length configured for use on exec.