Re: [PATCH 08/27] arm64/sve: Kconfig update and conditional compilation support

Alex Bennée
2017-08-21T10:12:36Z

Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> writes:

> This patch adds CONFIG_ARM64_SVE to control building of SVE support
> into the kernel, and adds a stub predicate system_supports_sve() to
> control conditional compilation and runtime SVE support.
>
> system_supports_sve() just returns false for now: it will be
> replaced with a non-trivial implementation in a later patch, once
> SVE support is complete enough to be enabled safely.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>

Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>

> ---
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 11 +++++++++++
> arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 5 +++++
> 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index fdc302e..fbf7a5c 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -962,6 +962,17 @@ config ARM64_UAO
>
> endmenu
>
> +config ARM64_SVE
> + bool "ARM Scalable Vector Extension support"
> + default y
> + help
> + The Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) is an extension to the AArch64
> + execution state which complements and extends the SIMD functionality
> + of the base architecture to support much larger vectors and to enable
> + additional vectorisation opportunities.
> +
> + To enable use of this extension on CPUs that implement it, say Y.
> +
> config ARM64_MODULE_CMODEL_LARGE
> bool
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> index 428ee1f..4ea3441 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> @@ -262,6 +262,11 @@ static inline bool system_uses_ttbr0_pan(void)
> !cpus_have_const_cap(ARM64_HAS_PAN);
> }
>
> +static inline bool system_supports_sve(void)
> +{
> + return false;
> +}
> +
> #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
>
> #endif