From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v4 0/9] arm64: Expose CPUID registers via emulation
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 17:15:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170110171459.GH527@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1483982912-27215-1-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 05:28:23PM +0000, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> This series adds a new ABI to expose the CPU feature registers
> to the user space via emulation of MRS instruction. The system exposes
> only a limited set of feature values (See the documentation patch)
> from the cpufeature infrastructure. The feature bits that are not
> exposed are set to the 'safe value' which implies 'not supported'.
>
> Apart from the selected feature registers, we expose MIDR_EL1 (Main
> ID Register). The user should be aware that, reading MIDR_EL1 can be
> tricky on a heterogeneous system (just like getcpu()). We export the
> value of the current CPU where 'MRS' is executed.
>
> Applies on v4.10-rc3.
Thanks, I'll queue this for 4.11.
Will
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-09 17:28 [PATCH v4 0/9] arm64: Expose CPUID registers via emulation Suzuki K Poulose
2017-01-09 17:28 ` [PATCH v4 1/9] arm64: cpufeature: treat unknown fields as RES0 Suzuki K Poulose
2017-01-09 17:28 ` [PATCH v4 2/9] arm64: cpufeature: remove explicit RAZ fields Suzuki K Poulose
2017-01-09 17:28 ` [PATCH v4 3/9] arm64: cpufeature: Cleanup feature bit tables Suzuki K Poulose
2017-01-09 17:28 ` [PATCH v4 4/9] arm64: cpufeature: Document the rules of safe value for features Suzuki K Poulose
2017-01-09 17:28 ` [PATCH v4 5/9] arm64: cpufeature: Define helpers for sys_reg id Suzuki K Poulose
2017-01-09 17:28 ` [PATCH v4 6/9] arm64: Add helper to decode register from instruction Suzuki K Poulose
2017-01-09 17:28 ` [PATCH v4 7/9] arm64: cpufeature: Track user visible fields Suzuki K Poulose
2017-01-10 14:24 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-01-10 14:25 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2017-01-09 17:28 ` [PATCH v4 8/9] arm64: cpufeature: Expose CPUID registers by emulation Suzuki K Poulose
2017-01-09 17:28 ` [PATCH v4 9/9] arm64: Documentation - Expose CPU feature registers Suzuki K Poulose
2017-01-10 17:15 ` Will Deacon [this message]
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