From: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@arm.com>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Szabolcs Nagy <Szabolcs.Nagy@arm.com>,
dave.martin@arm.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>, Phil Blundell <pb@pbcl.net>,
libc-alpha@sourceware.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 7/7] arm64: docs: document AT_HWCAP2 and unused AT_HWCAP bits
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2019 11:45:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190401104515.39775-8-andrew.murray@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190401104515.39775-1-andrew.murray@arm.com>
Now that we have expanded into AT_HWCAP2 let's add some documentation
to describe its presence. We also document the unused top half of
AT_HWCAP which we always return as 0 for userspace interoperation.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@arm.com>
---
Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt | 14 +++++++++++---
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt b/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt
index c605757dd4db..6b3d4d334db7 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ architected discovery mechanism available to userspace code at EL0. The
kernel exposes the presence of these features to userspace through a set
of flags called hwcaps, exposed in the auxilliary vector.
-Userspace software can test for features by acquiring the AT_HWCAP entry
-of the auxilliary vector, and testing whether the relevant flags are
-set, e.g.
+Userspace software can test for features by acquiring the AT_HWCAP or
+AT_HWCAP2 entry of the auxiliary vector, and testing whether the relevant
+flags are set, e.g.
bool floating_point_is_present(void)
{
@@ -198,3 +198,11 @@ HWCAP_PACG
Functionality implied by ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1.GPA == 0b0001 or
ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1.GPI == 0b0001, as described by
Documentation/arm64/pointer-authentication.txt.
+
+
+4. Unused AT_HWCAP bits
+-----------------------
+
+Each AT_HWCAP and AT_HWCAP2 entry provides for up to 32 hwcaps contained
+in bits [31:0]. For interoperation with userspace we guarantee that bit
+62 of AT_HWCAP will always be returned as 0.
--
2.21.0
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-01 10:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-01 10:45 [PATCH v3 0/7] arm64: Initial support for CVADP Andrew Murray
2019-04-01 10:45 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] arm64: Handle trapped DC CVADP Andrew Murray
2019-04-01 10:45 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] arm64: HWCAP: add support for AT_HWCAP2 Andrew Murray
2019-04-02 14:58 ` Dave Martin
2019-04-03 8:32 ` Andrew Murray
2019-04-03 9:11 ` Dave Martin
2019-04-03 9:29 ` Andrew Murray
2019-04-03 9:35 ` Dave Martin
2019-04-01 10:45 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] arm64: HWCAP: encapsulate elf_hwcap Andrew Murray
2019-04-02 14:58 ` Dave Martin
2019-04-02 15:06 ` Andrew Murray
2019-04-02 15:32 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2019-04-02 15:55 ` Dave Martin
2019-04-03 8:53 ` Andrew Murray
2019-04-03 9:13 ` Dave Martin
2019-04-01 10:45 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] arm64: Expose DC CVADP to userspace Andrew Murray
2019-04-01 10:45 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] arm64: add CVADP support to the cache maintenance helper Andrew Murray
2019-04-01 10:45 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] arm64: Advertise ARM64_HAS_DCPODP cpu feature Andrew Murray
2019-04-02 14:59 ` Dave Martin
2019-04-03 9:23 ` Andrew Murray
2019-04-03 9:32 ` Dave Martin
2019-04-03 9:57 ` Andrew Murray
2019-04-01 10:45 ` Andrew Murray [this message]
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