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To enable pointer auth for the kernel, we're going to need to check for the presence of address auth and generic auth using alternative_if. We currently have two cpucaps for each, but alternative_if needs to check a single cpucap. So define meta-capabilities that are present when either of the current two capabilities is present. Leave the existing four cpucaps in place, as they are still needed to check for mismatched systems where one CPU has the architected algorithm but another has the IMP DEF algorithm. Note, the meta-capabilities were present before but were removed in commita56005d321("arm64: cpufeature: Reduce number of pointer auth CPU caps from 6 to 4") and commit1e013d0612("arm64: cpufeature: Rework ptr auth hwcaps using multi_entry_cap_matches"), as they were not needed then. Note, unlike before, the current patch checks the cpucap values directly, instead of reading the CPU ID register value. Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <Vincenzo.Frascino@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Kristina Martsenko <kristina.martsenko@arm.com> [Amit: commit message and macro rebase, use __system_matches_cap] Signed-off-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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