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From: Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com (Suzuki K. Poulose)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 10:06:13 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/5] arm64: cpufeature: Track unsigned fields
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On 19/11/15 10:03, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
> On 19/11/15 04:57, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>>  From my curiosity,
>> can you please clarify your criteria regarding which fields of a register should be signed or unsigned?
>> I guessed that the fields marked with FTR_LOWER_SAFE or FTR_HIGHER_SAFE could be unsigned,

Also, the unsigned values are not restricted to LOWER_SAFE/HIGHER_SAFE, but also applies for
FTR_EXACT, so that we use the appropriate methods to extract them.


Suzuki