Re: [PATCH v2 04/12] arm64: docs: cpu-feature-registers: Document ID_AA64PFR1_EL1

From: Alex BennÃe
Date: Fri Oct 11 2019 - 09:19:55 EST



Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Commit d71be2b6c0e1 ("arm64: cpufeature: Detect SSBS and advertise
> to userspace") exposes ID_AA64PFR1_EL1 to userspace, but didn't
> update the documentation to match.
>
> Add it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>
> Note to maintainers:
>
> * This patch has been racing with various other attempts to fix
> the same documentation in the meantime.
>
> Since this patch only fixes the documenting for pre-existing
> features, it can safely be dropped if appropriate.
>
> The _new_ documentation relating to BTI feature reporting
> is in a subsequent patch, and needs to be retained.
> ---
> Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.rst | 15 +++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.rst b/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.rst
> index 2955287..b86828f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.rst
> @@ -168,8 +168,15 @@ infrastructure:
> +------------------------------+---------+---------+
>
>
> - 3) MIDR_EL1 - Main ID Register
> + 3) ID_AA64PFR1_EL1 - Processor Feature Register 1
> + +------------------------------+---------+---------+
> + | Name | bits | visible |
> + +------------------------------+---------+---------+
> + | SSBS | [7-4] | y |
> + +------------------------------+---------+---------+
> +
>
> + 4) MIDR_EL1 - Main ID Register
> +------------------------------+---------+---------+
> | Name | bits | visible |
> +------------------------------+---------+---------+
> @@ -188,7 +195,7 @@ infrastructure:
> as available on the CPU where it is fetched and is not a system
> wide safe value.
>
> - 4) ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1 - Instruction set attribute register 1
> + 5) ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1 - Instruction set attribute register 1

If I'm not mistaken .rst has support for auto-enumeration if the #
character is used. That might reduce the pain of re-numbering in future.

>
> +------------------------------+---------+---------+
> | Name | bits | visible |
> @@ -210,7 +217,7 @@ infrastructure:
> | DPB | [3-0] | y |
> +------------------------------+---------+---------+
>
> - 5) ID_AA64MMFR2_EL1 - Memory model feature register 2
> + 6) ID_AA64MMFR2_EL1 - Memory model feature register 2
>
> +------------------------------+---------+---------+
> | Name | bits | visible |
> @@ -218,7 +225,7 @@ infrastructure:
> | AT | [35-32] | y |
> +------------------------------+---------+---------+
>
> - 6) ID_AA64ZFR0_EL1 - SVE feature ID register 0
> + 7) ID_AA64ZFR0_EL1 - SVE feature ID register 0
>
> +------------------------------+---------+---------+
> | Name | bits | visible |


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Alex BennÃe