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Re: [PATCH v3 25/28] arm64/sve: Detect SVE and activate runtime support
- From: Catalin Marinas <catalin dot marinas at arm dot com>
- To: Dave Martin <Dave dot Martin at arm dot com>
- Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists dot infradead dot org, linux-arch at vger dot kernel dot org, Okamoto Takayuki <tokamoto at jp dot fujitsu dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, Ard Biesheuvel <ard dot biesheuvel at linaro dot org>, Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs dot nagy at arm dot com>, Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki dot poulose at arm dot com>, Will Deacon <will dot deacon at arm dot com>, Richard Sandiford <richard dot sandiford at arm dot com>, Alex Bennée <alex dot bennee at linaro dot org>, kvmarm at lists dot cs dot columbia dot edu
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 18:14:37 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 25/28] arm64/sve: Detect SVE and activate runtime support
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On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 07:38:42PM +0100, Dave P Martin wrote:
> This patch enables detection of hardware SVE support via the
> cpufeatures framework, and reports its presence to the kernel and
> userspace via the new ARM64_SVE cpucap and HWCAP_SVE hwcap
> respectively.
>
> Userspace can also detect SVE using ID_AA64PFR0_EL1, using the
> cpufeatures MRS emulation.
>
> When running on hardware that supports SVE, this enables runtime
> kernel support for SVE, and allows user tasks to execute SVE
> instructions and make of the of the SVE-specific user/kernel
> interface extensions implemented by this series.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
> Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>