[PATCH v3 1/2] arm64: Documentation: cpu-feature-registers: Remove RES0 fields
Mark Rutland
mark.rutland at arm.com
Mon Mar 12 04:16:32 PDT 2018
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 10:04:13AM +0000, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> Remove the invisible RES0 field entries from the table, listing
> fields in CPU ID feature registers, as :
> 1) We are only interested in the user visible fields.
> 2) The field description may not be up-to-date, as the
> field could be assigned a new meaning.
> 3) We already explain the rules of the fields which are not
> visible.
>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
Sounds reasonable to me. FWIW:
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Mark.
> ---
> Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt | 8 --------
> 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt b/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt
> index a70090b28b07..22cfb86143ee 100644
> --- a/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt
> @@ -110,7 +110,6 @@ infrastructure:
> x--------------------------------------------------x
> | Name | bits | visible |
> |--------------------------------------------------|
> - | RES0 | [63-52] | n |
> |--------------------------------------------------|
> | FHM | [51-48] | y |
> |--------------------------------------------------|
> @@ -124,8 +123,6 @@ infrastructure:
> |--------------------------------------------------|
> | RDM | [31-28] | y |
> |--------------------------------------------------|
> - | RES0 | [27-24] | n |
> - |--------------------------------------------------|
> | ATOMICS | [23-20] | y |
> |--------------------------------------------------|
> | CRC32 | [19-16] | y |
> @@ -135,8 +132,6 @@ infrastructure:
> | SHA1 | [11-8] | y |
> |--------------------------------------------------|
> | AES | [7-4] | y |
> - |--------------------------------------------------|
> - | RES0 | [3-0] | n |
> x--------------------------------------------------x
>
>
> @@ -144,12 +139,9 @@ infrastructure:
> x--------------------------------------------------x
> | Name | bits | visible |
> |--------------------------------------------------|
> - | RES0 | [63-36] | n |
> |--------------------------------------------------|
> | SVE | [35-32] | y |
> |--------------------------------------------------|
> - | RES0 | [31-28] | n |
> - |--------------------------------------------------|
> | GIC | [27-24] | n |
> |--------------------------------------------------|
> | AdvSIMD | [23-20] | y |
> --
> 2.14.3
>
More information about the linux-arm-kernel
mailing list