[PATCH v4 01/26] arm64/cpuinfo: Restore define for AIVIVT cache type

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Thu Jun 23 07:30:42 PDT 2022


On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 03:08:03PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 01:04:53PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > I think if we don't have the value be the same as it is in the
> > architecture we're going to have the next person who happens to look at
> > this go and try to define the missing value again.  I suppose we can add
> > a comment in the text file...

> FWIW, I'm perfectly happy with a comment along the lines of:

> # AIVIVT is deprecated and the encoding is reserved from ARMv8.0

> ... at the right place in the sysreg definitions file.

The actual wording in the v5 that I sent yesterday is:

	# This is named as AIVIVT in the ARM but documented as reserved
	0b01    RESERVED
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