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authorSuzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>2019-10-24 14:47:51 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-10-29 09:17:10 +0100
commit053cdffad3dd5e4a9330433ba2b400956f33bd2b (patch)
tree3cf804341f6a0281861e698fabe5ee9373ff96c2 /Documentation
parenteb952c6bce53b5389c41ffc3698594cb43b5aeb9 (diff)
arm64: Expose Arm v8.4 features
[ Upstream commit 7206dc93a58fb76421c4411eefa3c003337bcb2d ] Expose the new features introduced by Arm v8.4 extensions to Arm v8-A profile. These include : 1) Data indpendent timing of instructions. (DIT, exposed as HWCAP_DIT) 2) Unaligned atomic instructions and Single-copy atomicity of loads and stores. (AT, expose as HWCAP_USCAT) 3) LDAPR and STLR instructions with immediate offsets (extension to LRCPC, exposed as HWCAP_ILRCPC) 4) Flag manipulation instructions (TS, exposed as HWCAP_FLAGM). Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> [ardb: fix up context for missing SVE] Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt10
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diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt b/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt
index 22cfb86143ee..7964f03846b1 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ infrastructure:
x--------------------------------------------------x
| Name | bits | visible |
|--------------------------------------------------|
+ | TS | [55-52] | y |
|--------------------------------------------------|
| FHM | [51-48] | y |
|--------------------------------------------------|
@@ -139,6 +140,7 @@ infrastructure:
x--------------------------------------------------x
| Name | bits | visible |
|--------------------------------------------------|
+ | DIT | [51-48] | y |
|--------------------------------------------------|
| SVE | [35-32] | y |
|--------------------------------------------------|
@@ -191,6 +193,14 @@ infrastructure:
| DPB | [3-0] | y |
x--------------------------------------------------x
+ 5) ID_AA64MMFR2_EL1 - Memory model feature register 2
+
+ x--------------------------------------------------x
+ | Name | bits | visible |
+ |--------------------------------------------------|
+ | AT | [35-32] | y |
+ x--------------------------------------------------x
+
Appendix I: Example
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