[PATCH] arm64: erratum: Workaround for Kryo reserved system register read

[Marc Zyngier]

On 08/04/16 11:31, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> On 08/04/16 11:24, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> On 08/04/16 10:58, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
>>> On 07/04/16 18:31, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>>
>>>>> +	All system register encodings above use the form
>>>>> +
>>>>> +	Op0, Op1, CRn, CRm, Op2.
>>>>> +
>>>>> +	Note that some of the encodings listed above include
>>>>> +	the system register space reserved for the following
>>>>> +	identification registers which may appear in future revisions
>>>>> +	of the ARM architecture beyond ARMv8.0.
>>>>> +	This space includes:
>>>>> +	ID_AA64PFR[2-7]_EL1
>>>>> +	ID_AA64DFR[2-3]_EL1
>>>>> +	ID_AA64AFR[2-3]_EL1
>>>>> +	ID_AA64ISAR[2-7]_EL1
>>>>> +	ID_AA64MMFR[2-7]_EL1
>>>
>>>
>>> AFAIK, the id space is unassigned. So the naming above could cause confusion
>>> if the register is named something else.
>>
>> It is reserved *at the moment*, but already has a defined behaviour. My
> 
> Absolutely, they do need to be RAZ.  My point was assigning names to the reserved
> space where the names are unassigned.

Sorry - I misread your statement. It makes a lot more sense now that the
coffee has trickled in.

We're in violent agreement! ;-)

Thanks,

	M.
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