[PATCH v3 0/3] arm64: Add two HWCAPs for Arm v8.7 FP behaviour
Joey Gouly
joey.gouly at arm.com
Fri Dec 10 08:54:29 PST 2021
This series adds new HWCAPs for two Arm v8.7 features:
- FEAT_AFP: Alternate floating-point behavior for specific
floating point instructions.
- FEAT_RPRES: Increased precision of Reciprocal Estimate and
Reciprocal Square Root Estimate from an 8-bit mantissa to a
12-bit mantissa.
These features can be enabled by userspace by setting some new bits
in FPCR. These new bits are FPCR.{NEP, AH, FIZ}. Since these must be
explicitly enabled by userspace, this should not affect existing
applications.
This has been tested with:
- FVP: combinations of both features, including mismatched CPUs
- qemu: regression test, neither feature is supported
- juno: regression test, neither feature is supported
Changes since v2 [1]:
- Add comment explaining the missing 0x1 value
Thanks,
Joey
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20211207124226.50095-1-joey.gouly@arm.com/
Joey Gouly (3):
arm64: cpufeature: add HWCAP for FEAT_AFP
arm64: add ID_AA64ISAR2_EL1 sys register
arm64: cpufeature: add HWCAP for FEAT_RPRES
Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++
Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.rst | 8 ++++++++
arch/arm64/include/asm/cpu.h | 1 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/hwcap.h | 2 ++
arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/hwcap.h | 2 ++
arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 13 +++++++++++++
arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c | 3 +++
arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c | 2 +-
9 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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