From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: benh@ozlabs.au.ibm.com, tuliom@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
Steve Munroe <sjmunroe@us.ibm.com>,
Bill Schmidt <wschmidt@us.ibm.com>,
Peter Bergner <bergner@us.ibm.com>,
Michael Neuling <michael.neuling@au1.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: add PPC_FEATURE userspace bits for SCV and DARN instructions
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 08:14:41 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1495404881.3092.141.camel@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170520042949.29359-1-npiggin@gmail.com>
On Sat, 2017-05-20 at 14:29 +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Providing "scv" support to userspace requires kernel support, so it
> must be advertised as independently to the base ISA 3 instruction set.
>
> The darn instruction relies on firmware enablement, so it has been
> decided to split this out from the core ISA 3 feature as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> ---
> These uapi changes have been agreed by powerpc toolchain and firmware
> teams. I believe this completes our anticipated requirements for user
> feature advertisement for ISA v3.0B.
>
> arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/cputable.h | 2 ++
> arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c | 3 ++-
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/cputable.h b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/cputable.h
> index 3e7ce86d5c13..4d877144f377 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/cputable.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/cputable.h
> @@ -46,6 +46,8 @@
> #define PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC 0x01000000
> #define PPC_FEATURE2_ARCH_3_00 0x00800000 /* ISA 3.00 */
> #define PPC_FEATURE2_HAS_IEEE128 0x00400000 /* VSX IEEE Binary Float 128-bit */
> +#define PPC_FEATURE2_DARN 0x00200000 /* darn random number insn */
> +#define PPC_FEATURE2_SCV 0x00100000 /* scv syscall */
>
> /*
> * IMPORTANT!
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c
> index 9b3e88b1a9c8..6f849832a669 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c
> @@ -124,7 +124,8 @@ extern void __restore_cpu_e6500(void);
> #define COMMON_USER_POWER9 COMMON_USER_POWER8
> #define COMMON_USER2_POWER9 (COMMON_USER2_POWER8 | \
> PPC_FEATURE2_ARCH_3_00 | \
> - PPC_FEATURE2_HAS_IEEE128)
> + PPC_FEATURE2_HAS_IEEE128 | \
> + PPC_FEATURE2_DARN )
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3E_64
> #define COMMON_USER_BOOKE (COMMON_USER_PPC64 | PPC_FEATURE_BOOKE)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-21 22:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-20 4:29 [PATCH] powerpc: add PPC_FEATURE userspace bits for SCV and DARN instructions Nicholas Piggin
2017-05-21 22:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2017-05-25 13:22 ` Michael Ellerman
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