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2018-12-13arm64: docs: document pointer authenticationMark Rutland
Now that we've added code to support pointer authentication, add some documentation so that people can figure out if/how to use it. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Kristina Martsenko <kristina.martsenko@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana.radhakrishnan@arm.com> Cc: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana.radhakrishnan@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2018-03-19arm64: Expose Arm v8.4 featuresSuzuki K Poulose
Expose the new features introduced by Arm v8.4 extensions to Arm v8-A profile. These include : 1) Data indpendent timing of instructions. (DIT, exposed as HWCAP_DIT) 2) Unaligned atomic instructions and Single-copy atomicity of loads and stores. (AT, expose as HWCAP_USCAT) 3) LDAPR and STLR instructions with immediate offsets (extension to LRCPC, exposed as HWCAP_ILRCPC) 4) Flag manipulation instructions (TS, exposed as HWCAP_FLAGM). Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2018-03-19arm64: Documentation: cpu-feature-registers: Remove RES0 fieldsSuzuki K Poulose
Remove the invisible RES0 field entries from the table, listing fields in CPU ID feature registers, as : 1) We are only interested in the user visible fields. 2) The field description may not be up-to-date, as the field could be assigned a new meaning. 3) We already explain the rules of the fields which are not visible. Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2018-01-05arm64: v8.4: Support for new floating point multiplication instructionsDongjiu Geng
ARM v8.4 extensions add new neon instructions for performing a multiplication of each FP16 element of one vector with the corresponding FP16 element of a second vector, and to add or subtract this without an intermediate rounding to the corresponding FP32 element in a third vector. This patch detects this feature and let the userspace know about it via a HWCAP bit and MRS emulation. Cc: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Dongjiu Geng <gengdongjiu@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2017-11-03arm64/sve: Detect SVE and activate runtime supportDave Martin
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> Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2017-10-11arm64: Expose support for optional ARMv8-A featuresSuzuki K Poulose
ARMv8-A adds a few optional features for ARMv8.2 and ARMv8.3. Expose them to the userspace via HWCAPs and mrs emulation. SHA2-512 - Instruction support for SHA512 Hash algorithm (e.g SHA512H, SHA512H2, SHA512U0, SHA512SU1) SHA3 - SHA3 crypto instructions (EOR3, RAX1, XAR, BCAX). SM3 - Instruction support for Chinese cryptography algorithm SM3 SM4 - Instruction support for Chinese cryptography algorithm SM4 DP - Dot Product instructions (UDOT, SDOT). Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Dave Martin <dave.martin@arm.com> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2017-08-09arm64: Expose DC CVAP to userspaceRobin Murphy
The ARMv8.2-DCPoP feature introduces persistent memory support to the architecture, by defining a point of persistence in the memory hierarchy, and a corresponding cache maintenance operation, DC CVAP. Expose the support via HWCAP and MRS emulation. Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2017-03-20arm64: v8.3: Support for weaker release consistencySuzuki K Poulose
ARMv8.3 adds new instructions to support Release Consistent processor consistent (RCpc) model, which is weaker than the RCsc model. Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2017-03-20arm64: v8.3: Support for complex number instructionsSuzuki K Poulose
ARM v8.3 adds support for new instructions to aid floating-point multiplication and addition of complex numbers. Expose the support via HWCAP and MRS emulation Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2017-03-20arm64: v8.3: Support for Javascript conversion instructionSuzuki K Poulose
ARMv8.3 adds support for a new instruction to perform conversion from double precision floating point to integer to match the architected behaviour of the equivalent Javascript conversion. Expose the availability via HWCAP and MRS emulation. Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2017-01-12arm64: Documentation - Expose CPU feature registersSuzuki K Poulose
Documentation for the infrastructure to expose CPU feature register by emulating MRS. Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Dave Martin <dave.martin@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>