[PATCH v2 0/4] arm64: cpucap cleanup

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed Jun 7 10:21:24 PDT 2023


On Wed, 07 Jun 2023 17:48:42 +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Currently arm64 uses inconsistent terminology when handling cpucaps,
> with different places in the code referring to these as "capabilities",
> "features", "cpufeatures", "hwcaps", and "cpu_hwcaps" with the latter
> two easily being confused with the ELF hwcaps.
> 
> Similarly, the bitmaps used to store the boot and system cpucaps are
> named "boot_capabilities" and "cpu_hwcaps" respectively.
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/cpucap), thanks!

[1/4] arm64: standardise cpucap bitmap names
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/7f242982e408
[2/4] arm64: alternatives: use cpucap naming
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/5235c7e2cfcc
[3/4] arm64: cpufeature: use cpucap naming
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/1c8ae42975bd
[4/4] arm64: cpufeature: fold cpus_set_cap() into update_cpu_capabilities()
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/7dae5f086fce

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Catalin




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