Commit 81235ae0 authored by Mark Rutland's avatar Mark Rutland Committed by Will Deacon
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arm64: Kconfig: Make SME depend on BROKEN for now



Although support for SME was merged in v5.19, we've since uncovered a
number of issues with the implementation, including issues which might
corrupt the FPSIMD/SVE/SME state of arbitrary tasks. While there are
patches to address some of these issues, ongoing review has highlighted
additional functional problems, and more time is necessary to analyse
and fix these.

For now, mark SME as BROKEN in the hope that we can fix things properly
in the near future. As SME is an OPTIONAL part of ARMv9.2+, and there is
very little extant hardware, this should not adversely affect the vast
majority of users.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.19
Acked-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241106164220.2789279-1-mark.rutland@arm.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
parent 8c462d56
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@@ -2214,6 +2214,7 @@ config ARM64_SME
	bool "ARM Scalable Matrix Extension support"
	default y
	depends on ARM64_SVE
	depends on BROKEN
	help
	  The Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) is an extension to the AArch64
	  execution state which utilises a substantial subset of the SVE