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From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Query regarding ERRATUM_1418040
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2020 17:05:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <33f5d0c2348dc4bd78f442cb92de9715@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200706151651.GA23622@willie-the-truck>

On 2020-07-06 16:16, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 01:27:16PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> On 2020-07-06 13:09, Will Deacon wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 09:19:04AM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> > > +	mrs	x1, cntkctl_el1
>> > > +	bfi	x1, xzr, #1, #1	// ARCH_TIMER_USR_VCT_ACCESS_EN
>> >
>> > Can you use BIC here?
>> 
>> You wish. Turns out that BIC is labelled as a v8.2 instruction, even
>> if is just yet another alias for BFM, and gas sends me packing
>> if I dare using it.
>> 
>> So the above BFI is a poor man's version of BIC. Which objdump happily
>> disassembles as... BIC! Yes, this is all braindead.
> 
> Wha.. really? What about all our other uses of the BIC alias? Are you 
> sure
> you're not mixing it up with BFC?

Of course I am. BIC is absolutely fine. I blame the lack of coffee,
or something else.

Thanks,

         M.
-- 
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...

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      reply	other threads:[~2020-07-06 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-17  8:55 Query regarding ERRATUM_1418040 Neeraj Upadhyay
2020-06-17 11:19 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-06-17 11:25   ` Will Deacon
2020-06-17 13:00     ` Neeraj Upadhyay
2020-06-17 14:29     ` Marc Zyngier
2020-07-01 16:27       ` Will Deacon
2020-07-02  8:19         ` Marc Zyngier
2020-07-06 12:09           ` Will Deacon
2020-07-06 12:27             ` Marc Zyngier
2020-07-06 15:16               ` Will Deacon
2020-07-06 16:05                 ` Marc Zyngier [this message]

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