[RFC PATCH] arm64: Expose physical/virtual address bits through cpuinfo

[Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com (Suzuki K. Poulose)]

On 18/03/16 05:47, Kefeng Wang wrote:
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> On 2016/3/17 19:31, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
>> On 17/03/16 10:08, Kefeng Wang wrote:
>>> AArch64 support six types Physical Address range, permitted values
> [...]
>>> +static inline int id_aa64mmfr0_parange_bits(void)
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>> VA_BITS is an attribute of your running kernel and doesn't have anything to do with what
>> the CPU can support. (e.g, it is 48bit on 8.0, 8.1, but could go upto 52 in 8.2)
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> After check the new id register id_aa64mmfr2 in armv8.2, I think we can use the LVA(larger
> virtual address) bit of id_aa64mmfr2 to get virtual address bits supported by cpu, what's
> opinion?

Thats the only way to do it.

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> BTW, is it allowed to post patch by me to add more field of id_aa64mmfr2,

Of course. Also, since we use read_system_reg(), the values (pa and va width) won't change
across the CPUs. Hence, you may avoid multiple extraction routines and reuse the
results for one iteration.

Cheers
Suzuki