From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Suzuki K Poulose Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 25/28] arm64/sve: Detect SVE and activate runtime support Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 18:11:48 +0100 Message-ID: <54bcf388-ee66-c3f3-8eca-d6553a7f2c54@arm.com> References: <1507660725-7986-1-git-send-email-Dave.Martin@arm.com> <1507660725-7986-26-git-send-email-Dave.Martin@arm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.101.70]:36448 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751659AbdJKRLw (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2017 13:11:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1507660725-7986-26-git-send-email-Dave.Martin@arm.com> Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Dave Martin , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Ard Biesheuvel , =?UTF-8?Q?Alex_Benn=c3=a9e?= , Szabolcs Nagy , Richard Sandiford , Okamoto Takayuki , kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, libc-alpha@sourceware.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org On 10/10/17 19:38, Dave Martin wrote: > This patch enables detection of hardware SVE support via the > cpufeatures framework, and reports its presence to the kernel and > userspace via the new ARM64_SVE cpucap and HWCAP_SVE hwcap > respectively. > > Userspace can also detect SVE using ID_AA64PFR0_EL1, using the > cpufeatures MRS emulation. > > When running on hardware that supports SVE, this enables runtime > kernel support for SVE, and allows user tasks to execute SVE > instructions and make of the of the SVE-specific user/kernel > interface extensions implemented by this series. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Martin > Cc: Suzuki K Poulose Looks good to me. Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose