[PATCH v2 09/20] arm64: capabilities: Introduce weak features based on local CPU

Suzuki K Poulose suzuki.poulose at arm.com
Wed Jan 31 10:27:56 PST 2018


Now that we have the flexibility of defining system features based
on individual CPUs, introduce CPU feature type that can be detected
on a local SCOPE and ignores the conflict on late CPUs. This is
applicable for ARM64_HAS_NO_HW_PREFETCH, where it is fine for
the system to have CPUs without hardware prefetch turning up
later. We only suffer a performance penalty, nothing fatal.

Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Cc: Dave Martin <dave.martin at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 8 ++++++++
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c      | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
index cda62b70d338..7bb3fdec827e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
@@ -214,6 +214,14 @@ extern struct arm64_ftr_reg arm64_ftr_reg_ctrel0;
  */
 #define ARM64_CPUCAP_SYSTEM_FEATURE	\
 	(ARM64_CPUCAP_SCOPE_SYSTEM | ARM64_CPUCAP_PERMITTED_FOR_LATE_CPU)
+/*
+ * CPU feature detected at boot time based on feature of one or more CPUs.
+ * All possible conflicts for a late CPU are ignored.
+ */
+#define ARM64_CPUCAP_WEAK_LOCAL_CPU_FEATURE		\
+	(ARM64_CPUCAP_SCOPE_LOCAL_CPU		|	\
+	 ARM64_CPUCAP_OPTIONAL_FOR_LATE_CPU	|	\
+	 ARM64_CPUCAP_PERMITTED_FOR_LATE_CPU)
 
 struct arm64_cpu_capabilities {
 	const char *desc;
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index c710ef28524e..ecc87aa74c64 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -956,7 +956,7 @@ static const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities arm64_features[] = {
 	{
 		.desc = "Software prefetching using PRFM",
 		.capability = ARM64_HAS_NO_HW_PREFETCH,
-		.type = ARM64_CPUCAP_SYSTEM_FEATURE,
+		.type = ARM64_CPUCAP_WEAK_LOCAL_CPU_FEATURE,
 		.matches = has_no_hw_prefetch,
 	},
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_UAO
-- 
2.14.3




More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list