arm64: Unmask asynchronous aborts when in kernel mode

The asynchronous aborts are generally fatal for the kernel but they can
be masked via the pstate A bit. If a system error happens while in
kernel mode, it won't be visible until returning to user space. This
patch enables this kind of abort early to help identifying the cause.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
index 0bc5e4cbc017..bd9bbd0e44ed 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
@@ -205,6 +205,11 @@ u64 __cpu_logical_map[NR_CPUS] = { [0 ... NR_CPUS-1] = INVALID_HWID };
 
 void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 {
+        /*
+         * Unmask asynchronous aborts early to catch possible system errors.
+         */
+        local_async_enable();
+
         setup_processor();
 
         setup_machine_fdt(__fdt_pointer);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
index a5aeefab03c3..a0c2ca602cf8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
@@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ asmlinkage void secondary_start_kernel(void)
 
         local_irq_enable();
         local_fiq_enable();
+        local_async_enable();
 
         /*
          * OK, it's off to the idle thread for us