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arm64: HWCAP: add support for AT_HWCAP2

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As we will exhaust the first 32 bits of AT_HWCAP let's start
exposing AT_HWCAP2 to userspace to give us up to 64 caps.

Whilst it's possible to use the remaining 32 bits of AT_HWCAP, we
prefer to expand into AT_HWCAP2 in order to provide a consistent
view to userspace between ILP32 and LP64. However internal to the
kernel we prefer to continue to use the full space of elf_hwcap.

To reduce complexity and allow for future expansion, we now
represent hwcaps in the kernel as ordinals and use a
KERNEL_HWCAP_ prefix. This allows us to support automatic feature
based module loading for all our hwcaps.

We introduce cpu_set_feature to set hwcaps which complements the
existing cpu_have_feature helper. These helpers allow us to clean
up existing direct uses of elf_hwcap and reduce any future effort
required to move beyond 64 caps.

For convenience we also introduce cpu_{have,set}_named_feature which
makes use of the cpu_feature macro to allow providing a hwcap name
without a {KERNEL_}HWCAP_ prefix.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@arm.com>
[will: use const_ilog2() and tweak documentation]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Andrew Murray
2019-04-09 10:52:40 +01:00
committed by Will Deacon
parent a823c35ff2
commit aaba098fe6
15 changed files with 130 additions and 63 deletions
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Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt
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@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ architected discovery mechanism available to userspace code at EL0. The
kernel exposes the presence of these features to userspace through a set
of flags called hwcaps, exposed in the auxilliary vector.
Userspace software can test for features by acquiring the AT_HWCAP entry
of the auxilliary vector, and testing whether the relevant flags are
set, e.g.
Userspace software can test for features by acquiring the AT_HWCAP or
AT_HWCAP2 entry of the auxiliary vector, and testing whether the relevant
flags are set, e.g.
bool floating_point_is_present(void)
{
@@ -194,3 +194,10 @@ HWCAP_PACG
Functionality implied by ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1.GPA == 0b0001 or
ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1.GPI == 0b0001, as described by
Documentation/arm64/pointer-authentication.txt.
4. Unused AT_HWCAP bits
-----------------------
For interoperation with userspace, the kernel guarantees that bits 62
and 63 of AT_HWCAP will always be returned as 0.