EDAC driver for ARMv8 L1/L2 cache

York Sun york.sun at nxp.com
Fri Jan 12 09:17:54 PST 2018


On 01/12/2018 09:13 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 04:48:05PM +0000, York Sun wrote:
>> I see Stratix10 has A53 core. I am concerned on reading the
>> CPUMERRSR_EL1 and L2MERRSR_EL1. The are IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED
>> registers. They may not be available on all SoCs, or all time.
> 
> Is there something like CPUID on x86, on ARM64 which denotes presence of
> a certain feature?
> 
> Or is that thing devicetree?
> 

This feature is available on the SoC I am working on (NXP LS1046A). It
seems always there. I don't know if there is any register denoting the
existence of such feature. I guess we can use device tree if this
feature exists. Not sure if big.LITTLE is a concern here.

York



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