[RFC PATCH 01/10] arm64: feature registers: Documentation

[Dave Martin]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 04:37:46PM +0100, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
> On 11/08/15 15:23, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> >On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 07:48:48PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >>>On 10/08/15 17:06, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> >>>>And to debunk some of the counter arguments:
> >>>>
> >>>>a) Running out of HWCAP bits - I really doubt this, we can always
> >>>>     introduce 64 more via a new elf_hwcapX
> >>
> >>Note that ELF_HWCAP is also wired into ifunc resolution of GNU
> >>indirect functions, which looks like a useful feature although it
> >>isn't used that widely yet.
> >
> >I forgot to mention, we also need an HWCAP_CPUID with these patches when
> >we expose the MRS interface. The ifunc resolver could use MRS when
> >available. But I would still keep adding HWCAP bits for new features,
> >even if we risk running out of the 64-bit we have now.
> >
> 
> Sure, I will add the HWCAP_CPUID in the next version of the series.

+1

Playing with this, I realise that I get a splat if my userspace code
tries to do an MRS for an ID register when this series is absent -- we
need an hwcap that we can check first.

Cheers
---Dave