Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] arm64: cpufeature: Set the FP/SIMD compat HWCAP bits properly

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Fri Jan 10 2020 - 09:51:18 EST


On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 06:33:59PM +0000, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> We set the compat_elf_hwcap bits unconditionally on arm64 to
> include the VFP and NEON support. However, the FP/SIMD unit
> is optional on Arm v8 and thus could be missing. We already
> handle this properly in the kernel, but still advertise to
> the COMPAT applications that the VFP is available. Fix this
> to make sure we only advertise when we really have them.
>
> Fixes: 82e0191a1aa11abf ("arm64: Support systems without FP/ASIMD")
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>