Re: [PATCH] arm64: Expose ASIMD dot product instruction support

From: Will Deacon
Date: Mon Oct 02 2017 - 06:26:48 EST


On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 03:33:16PM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> ARM v8-A adds two new optional instructions in architecture version v8.2
> and v8.3, for performing dot product of 8bit elements in each 32bit element
> of two vectors and accumulating the result into a third vector. Expose the
> functionality via ELF HWCAPs and MRS emulation.
>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt | 6 +++++-
> arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h | 1 +
> arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/hwcap.h | 1 +
> arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 2 ++
> arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c | 1 +
> 5 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt b/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt
> index dad411d635d8..f25cfbfa91a7 100644
> --- a/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt
> @@ -110,7 +110,11 @@ infrastructure:
> x--------------------------------------------------x
> | Name | bits | visible |
> |--------------------------------------------------|
> - | RES0 | [63-32] | n |
> + | RES0 | [63-48] | n |
> + |--------------------------------------------------|
> + | DP | [47-44] | y |
> + |--------------------------------------------------|
> + | RES0 | [43-32] | n |

Can you also add the other new features that occupy this RES0 space, please?
They're listed in the public XML descriptions of the system registers.

Will