[PATCH v4 02/10] arm64: cpufeatures: Correctly handle signed values

[Catalin Marinas]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 06:13:36PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Although we've had signed values for some features such as PMUv3
> and FP, the code that handles the comparaison with some limit
> has a couple of annoying issues:
> 
> - the min_field_value is always unsigned, meaning that we cannot
>   easily compare it with a negative value
> 
> - it is not possible to have a range of values, let alone a range
>   of negative values
> 
> Fix this by:
> 
> - adding an upper limit to the comparison, defaulting to all bits
>   being set to the maximum positive value
> 
> - ensuring that the signess of the min and max values are taken into
>   account
> 
> A ARM64_CPUID_FIELDS_NEG() macro is provided for signed features, but
> nothing is using it yet.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>