Thread (43 messages) 43 messages, 5 authors, 2016-02-29

[PATCH v4 05/23] arm64: Add ARM64_HAS_VIRT_HOST_EXTN feature

From: Will Deacon <hidden>
Date: 2016-02-15 16:10:44
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On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 06:39:46PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
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Add a new ARM64_HAS_VIRT_HOST_EXTN features to indicate that the
CPU has the ARMv8.1 VHE capability.

This will be used to trigger kernel patching in KVM.

Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <redacted>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <redacted>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h |  3 ++-
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c      | 11 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
index 8f271b8..c705d6a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
@@ -30,8 +30,9 @@
 #define ARM64_HAS_LSE_ATOMICS			5
 #define ARM64_WORKAROUND_CAVIUM_23154		6
 #define ARM64_WORKAROUND_834220			7
+#define ARM64_HAS_VIRT_HOST_EXTN		8
 
-#define ARM64_NCAPS				8
+#define ARM64_NCAPS				9
Just a heads up, but this conflicts with the for-next/core branch, where
I used cap 8 to identify the absence of a h/w prefetcher.

Will
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