Re: [PATCH] arm64: cpuinfo: Expose MIDR_EL1 and REVIDR_EL1 to sysfs

From: Suzuki K Poulose
Date: Mon Jun 13 2016 - 09:25:27 EST


On 13/06/16 13:37, Will Deacon wrote:
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 01:02:36PM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
On 10/06/16 18:02, Will Deacon wrote:
On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 04:19:44PM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
From: Steve Capper <steve.capper@xxxxxxxxxx>

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 codegen.

This patch exposes these registers through sysfs:

/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu$ID/identification/midr
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu$ID/identification/revidr


+
+#define CPUINFO_ATTR_RO(_name) \
+ static ssize_t show_##_name (struct device *dev, \
+ struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf) \
+ { \
+ struct cpuinfo_arm64 *info = &per_cpu(cpu_data, dev->id); \
+ if (!cpu_present(dev->id)) \
+ return -ENODEV; \
+ \
+ if (info->reg_midr) \
+ return sprintf(buf, "0x%016x\n", info->reg_##_name); \

Should this be 0x%08x, as these are 32-bit registers?

Yes. Will change it. As per Mark's comments, I can change them to 64bit in
a separate patch

No -- this is a sysfs ABI and I think we should be consistent from the
beginning. I'm fine with having them 64-bit, since Mark's comments make
sense, but a comment justifying that would be a good idea.

OK. Will add a comment then.

Thanks
Suzuki