RE: [PATCH v10 1/3] arm64: cpufeature: introduce helper cpu_has_hw_af()

[Justin He (Arm Technology China)]

Hi Will and Marc
Sorry for the late response, just came back from a vacation.

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> From: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: 2019年10月1日 21:19
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 1/3] arm64: cpufeature: introduce helper
> cpu_has_hw_af()
>
> On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 13:54:47 +0100
> Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 09:57:38AM +0800, Jia He wrote:
> > > We unconditionally set the HW_AFDBM capability and only enable it on
> > > CPUs which really have the feature. But sometimes we need to know
> > > whether this cpu has the capability of HW AF. So decouple AF from
> > > DBM by new helper cpu_has_hw_af().
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jia He <justin.he@xxxxxxx>
> > > Suggested-by: Suzuki Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@xxxxxxx>
> > > Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 10 ++++++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> > > index 9cde5d2e768f..949bc7c85030 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> > > @@ -659,6 +659,16 @@ static inline u32
> id_aa64mmfr0_parange_to_phys_shift(int parange)
> > >   default: return CONFIG_ARM64_PA_BITS;
> > >   }
> > >  }
> > > +
> > > +/* Check whether hardware update of the Access flag is supported */
> > > +static inline bool cpu_has_hw_af(void)
> > > +{
> > > + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM64_HW_AFDBM))
> > > +         return read_cpuid(ID_AA64MMFR1_EL1) & 0xf;
> >
> > 0xf? I think we should have a mask in sysreg.h for this constant.
>
> We don't have the mask, but we certainly have the shift.
>
> GENMASK(ID_AA64MMFR1_HADBS_SHIFT + 3,
> ID_AA64MMFR1_HADBS_SHIFT) is a bit
> of a mouthful though. Ideally, we'd have a helper for that.
>
Ok, I will implement the helper if there isn't so far.
And then replace the 0xf with it.


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Cheers,
Justin (Jia He)


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