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<title>linux.git/arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c, branch v4.9.247</title>
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<entry>
<title>arm64: Rearrange CPU errata workaround checks</title>
<updated>2016-09-09T14:03:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suzuki K Poulose</name>
<email>suzuki.poulose@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-09T13:07:10+00:00</published>
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Right now we run through the work around checks on a CPU
from __cpuinfo_store_cpu. There are some problems with that:

1) We initialise the system wide CPU feature registers only after the
Boot CPU updates its cpuinfo. Now, if a work around depends on the
variance of a CPU ID feature (e.g, check for Cache Line size mismatch),
we have no way of performing it cleanly for the boot CPU.

2) It is out of place, invoked from __cpuinfo_store_cpu() in cpuinfo.c. It
is not an obvious place for that.

This patch rearranges the CPU specific capability(aka work around) checks.

1) At the moment we use verify_local_cpu_capabilities() to check if a new
CPU has all the system advertised features. Use this for the secondary CPUs
to perform the work around check. For that we rename
  verify_local_cpu_capabilities() =&gt; check_local_cpu_capabilities()
which:

   If the system wide capabilities haven't been initialised (i.e, the CPU
   is activated at the boot), update the system wide detected work arounds.

   Otherwise (i.e a CPU hotplugged in later) verify that this CPU conforms to the
   system wide capabilities.

2) Boot CPU updates the work arounds from smp_prepare_boot_cpu() after we have
initialised the system wide CPU feature values.

Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Right now we run through the work around checks on a CPU
from __cpuinfo_store_cpu. There are some problems with that:

1) We initialise the system wide CPU feature registers only after the
Boot CPU updates its cpuinfo. Now, if a work around depends on the
variance of a CPU ID feature (e.g, check for Cache Line size mismatch),
we have no way of performing it cleanly for the boot CPU.

2) It is out of place, invoked from __cpuinfo_store_cpu() in cpuinfo.c. It
is not an obvious place for that.

This patch rearranges the CPU specific capability(aka work around) checks.

1) At the moment we use verify_local_cpu_capabilities() to check if a new
CPU has all the system advertised features. Use this for the secondary CPUs
to perform the work around check. For that we rename
  verify_local_cpu_capabilities() =&gt; check_local_cpu_capabilities()
which:

   If the system wide capabilities haven't been initialised (i.e, the CPU
   is activated at the boot), update the system wide detected work arounds.

   Otherwise (i.e a CPU hotplugged in later) verify that this CPU conforms to the
   system wide capabilities.

2) Boot CPU updates the work arounds from smp_prepare_boot_cpu() after we have
initialised the system wide CPU feature values.

Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: Use consistent naming for errata handling</title>
<updated>2016-09-09T14:03:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suzuki K Poulose</name>
<email>suzuki.poulose@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-09T13:07:09+00:00</published>
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This is a cosmetic change to rename the functions dealing with
the errata work arounds to be more consistent with their naming.

1) check_local_cpu_errata() =&gt; update_cpu_errata_workarounds()
check_local_cpu_errata() actually updates the system's errata work
arounds. So rename it to reflect the same.

2) verify_local_cpu_errata() =&gt; verify_local_cpu_errata_workarounds()
Use errata_workarounds instead of _errata.

Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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This is a cosmetic change to rename the functions dealing with
the errata work arounds to be more consistent with their naming.

1) check_local_cpu_errata() =&gt; update_cpu_errata_workarounds()
check_local_cpu_errata() actually updates the system's errata work
arounds. So rename it to reflect the same.

2) verify_local_cpu_errata() =&gt; verify_local_cpu_errata_workarounds()
Use errata_workarounds instead of _errata.

Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: cpuinfo: Expose MIDR_EL1 and REVIDR_EL1 to sysfs</title>
<updated>2016-07-12T15:09:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steve Capper</name>
<email>steve.capper@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-08T15:01:13+00:00</published>
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It can be useful for JIT software to be aware of MIDR_EL1 and
REVIDR_EL1 to ascertain the presence of any core errata that could
affect code generation.

This patch exposes these registers through sysfs:

/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu$ID/regs/identification/midr_el1
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu$ID/regs/identification/revidr_el1

where $ID is the cpu number. For big.LITTLE systems, one can have a
mixture of cores (e.g. Cortex A53 and Cortex A57), thus all CPUs need
to be enumerated.

If the kernel does not have valid information to populate these entries
with, an empty string is returned to userspace.

Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@linaro.org&gt;
[suzuki.poulose@arm.com: ABI documentation updates, hotplug notifiers, kobject changes]
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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It can be useful for JIT software to be aware of MIDR_EL1 and
REVIDR_EL1 to ascertain the presence of any core errata that could
affect code generation.

This patch exposes these registers through sysfs:

/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu$ID/regs/identification/midr_el1
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu$ID/regs/identification/revidr_el1

where $ID is the cpu number. For big.LITTLE systems, one can have a
mixture of cores (e.g. Cortex A53 and Cortex A57), thus all CPUs need
to be enumerated.

If the kernel does not have valid information to populate these entries
with, an empty string is returned to userspace.

Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@linaro.org&gt;
[suzuki.poulose@arm.com: ABI documentation updates, hotplug notifiers, kobject changes]
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Provide "model name" in /proc/cpuinfo for PER_LINUX32 tasks</title>
<updated>2016-05-31T16:50:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-31T14:55:03+00:00</published>
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This patch brings the PER_LINUX32 /proc/cpuinfo format more in line with
the 32-bit ARM one by providing an additional line:

model name      : ARMv8 Processor rev X (v8l)

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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This patch brings the PER_LINUX32 /proc/cpuinfo format more in line with
the 32-bit ARM one by providing an additional line:

model name      : ARMv8 Processor rev X (v8l)

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: cpuinfo: Missing NULL terminator in compat_hwcap_str</title>
<updated>2016-05-11T09:26:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Julien Grall</name>
<email>julien.grall@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-10T14:40:31+00:00</published>
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The loop that browses the array compat_hwcap_str will stop when a NULL
is encountered, however NULL is missing at the end of array. This will
lead to overrun until a NULL is found somewhere in the following memory.
In reality, this works out because the compat_hwcap2_str array tends to
follow immediately in memory, and that *is* terminated correctly.
Furthermore, the unsigned int compat_elf_hwcap is checked before
printing each capability, so we end up doing the right thing because
the size of the two arrays is less than 32. Still, this is an obvious
mistake and should be fixed.

Note for backporting: commit 12d11817eaafa414 ("arm64: Move
/proc/cpuinfo handling code") moved this code in v4.4. Prior to that
commit, the same change should be made in arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c.

Fixes: 44b82b7700d0 "arm64: Fix up /proc/cpuinfo"
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.19+ (but see note above prior to v4.4)
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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The loop that browses the array compat_hwcap_str will stop when a NULL
is encountered, however NULL is missing at the end of array. This will
lead to overrun until a NULL is found somewhere in the following memory.
In reality, this works out because the compat_hwcap2_str array tends to
follow immediately in memory, and that *is* terminated correctly.
Furthermore, the unsigned int compat_elf_hwcap is checked before
printing each capability, so we end up doing the right thing because
the size of the two arrays is less than 32. Still, this is an obvious
mistake and should be fixed.

Note for backporting: commit 12d11817eaafa414 ("arm64: Move
/proc/cpuinfo handling code") moved this code in v4.4. Prior to that
commit, the same change should be made in arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c.

Fixes: 44b82b7700d0 "arm64: Fix up /proc/cpuinfo"
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.19+ (but see note above prior to v4.4)
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: cpufeature: Check availability of AArch32</title>
<updated>2016-04-20T11:22:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suzuki K Poulose</name>
<email>suzuki.poulose@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-18T09:28:35+00:00</published>
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On ARMv8 support for AArch32 state is optional. Hence it is
not safe to check the AArch32 ID registers for sanity, which
could lead to false warnings. This patch makes sure that the
AArch32 state is implemented before we keep track of the 32bit
ID registers.

As per ARM ARM (D.1.21.2 - Support for Exception Levels and
Execution States, DDI0487A.h), checking the support for AArch32
at EL0 is good enough to check the support for AArch32 (i.e,
AArch32 at EL1 =&gt; AArch32 at EL0, but not vice versa).

Tested-by: Yury Norov &lt;ynorov@caviumnetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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On ARMv8 support for AArch32 state is optional. Hence it is
not safe to check the AArch32 ID registers for sanity, which
could lead to false warnings. This patch makes sure that the
AArch32 state is implemented before we keep track of the 32bit
ID registers.

As per ARM ARM (D.1.21.2 - Support for Exception Levels and
Execution States, DDI0487A.h), checking the support for AArch32
at EL0 is good enough to check the support for AArch32 (i.e,
AArch32 at EL1 =&gt; AArch32 at EL0, but not vice versa).

Tested-by: Yury Norov &lt;ynorov@caviumnetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: make mrs_s prefixing implicit in read_cpuid</title>
<updated>2016-03-04T14:12:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-04T12:54:05+00:00</published>
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Commit 0f54b14e76f5302a ("arm64: cpufeature: Change read_cpuid() to use
sysreg's mrs_s macro") changed read_cpuid to require a SYS_ prefix on
register names, to allow manual assembly of registers unknown by the
toolchain, using tables in sysreg.h.

This interacts poorly with commit 42b55734030c1f72 ("efi/arm64: Check
for h/w support before booting a &gt;4 KB granular kernel"), which is
curretly queued via the tip tree, and uses read_cpuid without a SYS_
prefix. Due to this, a build of next-20160304 fails if EFI and 64K pages
are selected.

To avoid this issue when trees are merged, move the required SYS_
prefixing into read_cpuid, and revert all of the updated callsites to
pass plain register names. This effectively reverts the bulk of commit
0f54b14e76f5302a.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Commit 0f54b14e76f5302a ("arm64: cpufeature: Change read_cpuid() to use
sysreg's mrs_s macro") changed read_cpuid to require a SYS_ prefix on
register names, to allow manual assembly of registers unknown by the
toolchain, using tables in sysreg.h.

This interacts poorly with commit 42b55734030c1f72 ("efi/arm64: Check
for h/w support before booting a &gt;4 KB granular kernel"), which is
curretly queued via the tip tree, and uses read_cpuid without a SYS_
prefix. Due to this, a build of next-20160304 fails if EFI and 64K pages
are selected.

To avoid this issue when trees are merged, move the required SYS_
prefixing into read_cpuid, and revert all of the updated callsites to
pass plain register names. This effectively reverts the bulk of commit
0f54b14e76f5302a.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Add support for Half precision floating point</title>
<updated>2016-02-26T15:37:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suzuki K Poulose</name>
<email>suzuki.poulose@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-26T15:52:46+00:00</published>
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ARMv8.2 extensions [1] include an optional feature, which supports
half precision(16bit) floating point/asimd data processing
instructions. This patch adds support for detecting and exposing
the same to the userspace via HWCAPs

[1] https://community.arm.com/groups/processors/blog/2016/01/05/armv8-a-architecture-evolution

Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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ARMv8.2 extensions [1] include an optional feature, which supports
half precision(16bit) floating point/asimd data processing
instructions. This patch adds support for detecting and exposing
the same to the userspace via HWCAPs

[1] https://community.arm.com/groups/processors/blog/2016/01/05/armv8-a-architecture-evolution

Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: add ARMv8.2 id_aa64mmfr2 boiler plate</title>
<updated>2016-02-18T12:00:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morse</name>
<email>james.morse@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-05T14:58:47+00:00</published>
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ARMv8.2 adds a new feature register id_aa64mmfr2. This patch adds the
cpu feature boiler plate used by the actual features in later patches.

Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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ARMv8.2 adds a new feature register id_aa64mmfr2. This patch adds the
cpu feature boiler plate used by the actual features in later patches.

Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: cpufeature: Change read_cpuid() to use sysreg's mrs_s macro</title>
<updated>2016-02-18T11:59:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morse</name>
<email>james.morse@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-05T14:58:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=0f54b14e76f5302afe164dc911b049b5df836ff5'/>
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Older assemblers may not have support for newer feature registers. To get
round this, sysreg.h provides a 'mrs_s' macro that takes a register
encoding and generates the raw instruction.

Change read_cpuid() to use mrs_s in all cases so that new registers
don't have to be a special case. Including sysreg.h means we need to move
the include and definition of read_cpuid() after the #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
to avoid syntax errors in vmlinux.lds.

Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Older assemblers may not have support for newer feature registers. To get
round this, sysreg.h provides a 'mrs_s' macro that takes a register
encoding and generates the raw instruction.

Change read_cpuid() to use mrs_s in all cases so that new registers
don't have to be a special case. Including sysreg.h means we need to move
the include and definition of read_cpuid() after the #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
to avoid syntax errors in vmlinux.lds.

Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
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