[PATCH v11 03/40] arm64: cpufeature: Always specify and use a field width for capabilities
Suzuki K Poulose
suzuki.poulose at arm.com
Thu Feb 10 03:55:41 PST 2022
On 07/02/2022 15:20, Mark Brown wrote:
> Since all the fields in the main ID registers are 4 bits wide we have up
> until now not bothered specifying the width in the code. Since we now
> wish to use this mechanism to enumerate features from the floating point
> feature registers which do not follow this pattern add a width to the
> table. This means updating all the existing table entries but makes it
> less likely that we run into issues in future due to implicitly assuming
> a 4 bit width.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
> Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
More information about the linux-arm-kernel
mailing list