[PATCH v1 5/6] arm64/hwcap: Add support for SVE 2.1
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed Nov 9 09:35:11 PST 2022
On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 04:25:19PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> FEAT_SVE2p1 introduces a number of new SVE instructions. Since there is no
> new architectural state added kernel support is simply a new hwcap which
> lets userspace know that the feature is supported.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
> ---
> Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.rst | 3 +++
> Documentation/arm64/sve.rst | 1 +
> arch/arm64/include/asm/hwcap.h | 1 +
> arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/hwcap.h | 1 +
> arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 1 +
> arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c | 1 +
> arch/arm64/tools/sysreg | 1 +
> 7 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.rst b/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.rst
> index a82b2cdff680..6fed84f935df 100644
> --- a/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.rst
> @@ -281,6 +281,9 @@ HWCAP2_CSSC
> HWCAP2_RPRFM
> Functionality implied by ID_AA64ISAR2_EL1.RPRFM == 0b0001.
>
> +HWCAP2_SVE2P1
> + Functionality implied by ID_AA64ZFR0_EL1.SVEver == 0b0010.
It looks like our architect ran out of meaningful names. I guess we
should just follow them in the kernel.
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
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