[PATCH 1/2] arm64: alternative: Introduce feature for GICv3 CPU interface
Marc Zyngier
marc.zyngier at arm.com
Fri Jun 12 04:06:36 PDT 2015
Add a new item to the feature set (ARM64_HAS_SYSREG_GIC_CPUIF)
to indicate that we have a system register GIC CPU interface
This will help KVM switching to alternative instruction patching.
Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 8 +++++++-
arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
index 82cb9f9..c104421 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
@@ -24,8 +24,9 @@
#define ARM64_WORKAROUND_CLEAN_CACHE 0
#define ARM64_WORKAROUND_DEVICE_LOAD_ACQUIRE 1
#define ARM64_WORKAROUND_845719 2
+#define ARM64_HAS_SYSREG_GIC_CPUIF 3
-#define ARM64_NCAPS 3
+#define ARM64_NCAPS 4
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
@@ -38,6 +39,11 @@ struct arm64_cpu_capabilities {
u32 midr_model;
u32 midr_range_min, midr_range_max;
};
+
+ struct { /* Feature register checking */
+ u64 register_mask;
+ u64 register_value;
+ };
};
};
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index 3d9967e..5ad86ce 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -22,7 +22,23 @@
#include <asm/cpu.h>
#include <asm/cpufeature.h>
+static bool
+has_id_aa64pfr0_feature(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry)
+{
+ u64 val;
+
+ val = read_cpuid(id_aa64pfr0_el1);
+ return (val & entry->register_mask) == entry->register_value;
+}
+
static const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities arm64_features[] = {
+ {
+ .desc = "GIC system register CPU interface",
+ .capability = ARM64_HAS_SYSREG_GIC_CPUIF,
+ .matches = has_id_aa64pfr0_feature,
+ .register_mask = (0xf << 24),
+ .register_value = (1 << 24),
+ },
{},
};
--
2.1.4
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