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authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2013-04-08 17:13:12 +0100
committerWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2013-05-30 16:02:34 +0100
commita469abd0f868c902b75532579bf87553dcf1b360 (patch)
tree45b8497556dff1a90311bbd087f34ff4791be9d6 /arch/arm
parente38a517578d6c0f764b0d0f6e26dcdf9f70c69d7 (diff)
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ARM: elf: add new hwcap for identifying atomic ldrd/strd instructions
CPUs implementing LPAE have atomic ldrd/strd instructions, meaning that userspace software can avoid having to use the exclusive variants of these instructions if they wish. This patch advertises the atomicity of these instructions via the hwcaps, so userspace can detect this CPU feature. Reported-by: Vladimir Danushevsky <vladimir.danushevsky@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/hwcap.h2
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/kernel/setup.c8
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/hwcap.h b/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/hwcap.h
index 3688fd1..6d34d08 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/hwcap.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/hwcap.h
@@ -25,6 +25,6 @@
#define HWCAP_IDIVT (1 << 18)
#define HWCAP_VFPD32 (1 << 19) /* set if VFP has 32 regs (not 16) */
#define HWCAP_IDIV (HWCAP_IDIVA | HWCAP_IDIVT)
-
+#define HWCAP_LPAE (1 << 20)
#endif /* _UAPI__ASMARM_HWCAP_H */
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
index 1522c7a..bdcd4dd 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ void __init early_print(const char *str, ...)
static void __init cpuid_init_hwcaps(void)
{
- unsigned int divide_instrs;
+ unsigned int divide_instrs, vmsa;
if (cpu_architecture() < CPU_ARCH_ARMv7)
return;
@@ -368,6 +368,11 @@ static void __init cpuid_init_hwcaps(void)
case 1:
elf_hwcap |= HWCAP_IDIVT;
}
+
+ /* LPAE implies atomic ldrd/strd instructions */
+ vmsa = (read_cpuid_ext(CPUID_EXT_MMFR0) & 0xf) >> 0;
+ if (vmsa >= 5)
+ elf_hwcap |= HWCAP_LPAE;
}
static void __init feat_v6_fixup(void)
@@ -872,6 +877,7 @@ static const char *hwcap_str[] = {
"vfpv4",
"idiva",
"idivt",
+ "lpae",
NULL
};
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