[PATCH 2/5] arm64: cpufeature: Track unsigned fields

Suzuki K. Poulose Suzuki.Poulose at arm.com
Thu Nov 19 02:06:13 PST 2015


On 19/11/15 10:03, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
> On 19/11/15 04:57, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>>  From my curiosity,
>> can you please clarify your criteria regarding which fields of a register should be signed or unsigned?
>> I guessed that the fields marked with FTR_LOWER_SAFE or FTR_HIGHER_SAFE could be unsigned,

Also, the unsigned values are not restricted to LOWER_SAFE/HIGHER_SAFE, but also applies for
FTR_EXACT, so that we use the appropriate methods to extract them.


Suzuki




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