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

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Thu Jun 23 07:36:30 PDT 2022


On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 03:30:42PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> 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

Ah, sorry; I had missed v5 when filtering my review queue. FWIW that's fine by
me!

Thanks,
Mark.



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