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authorDave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>2019-04-18 18:41:38 +0100
committerWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2019-04-23 18:02:00 +0100
commit06a916feca2b262ab0c1a2aeb68882f4b1108a07 (patch)
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parentdd523791c939cfe642557cb2fac754ac0fed80fe (diff)
downloadlinux-06a916feca2b262ab0c1a2aeb68882f4b1108a07.tar.bz2
arm64: Expose SVE2 features for userspace
This patch provides support for reporting the presence of SVE2 and its optional features to userspace. This will also enable visibility of SVE2 for guests, when KVM support for SVE-enabled guests is available. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/arm64')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt24
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm64/sve.txt17
3 files changed, 57 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt b/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt
index d4b4dd1fe786..684a0da39378 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt
@@ -209,6 +209,22 @@ infrastructure:
| AT | [35-32] | y |
x--------------------------------------------------x
+ 6) ID_AA64ZFR0_EL1 - SVE feature ID register 0
+
+ x--------------------------------------------------x
+ | Name | bits | visible |
+ |--------------------------------------------------|
+ | SM4 | [43-40] | y |
+ |--------------------------------------------------|
+ | SHA3 | [35-32] | y |
+ |--------------------------------------------------|
+ | BitPerm | [19-16] | y |
+ |--------------------------------------------------|
+ | AES | [7-4] | y |
+ |--------------------------------------------------|
+ | SVEVer | [3-0] | y |
+ x--------------------------------------------------x
+
Appendix I: Example
---------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt b/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt
index 55431fd2a67a..b73a2519ecf2 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt
@@ -163,6 +163,30 @@ HWCAP_SVE
Functionality implied by ID_AA64PFR0_EL1.SVE == 0b0001.
+HWCAP2_SVE2
+
+ Functionality implied by ID_AA64ZFR0_EL1.SVEVer == 0b0001.
+
+HWCAP2_SVEAES
+
+ Functionality implied by ID_AA64ZFR0_EL1.AES == 0b0001.
+
+HWCAP2_SVEPMULL
+
+ Functionality implied by ID_AA64ZFR0_EL1.AES == 0b0010.
+
+HWCAP2_SVEBITPERM
+
+ Functionality implied by ID_AA64ZFR0_EL1.BitPerm == 0b0001.
+
+HWCAP2_SVESHA3
+
+ Functionality implied by ID_AA64ZFR0_EL1.SHA3 == 0b0001.
+
+HWCAP2_SVESM4
+
+ Functionality implied by ID_AA64ZFR0_EL1.SM4 == 0b0001.
+
HWCAP_ASIMDFHM
Functionality implied by ID_AA64ISAR0_EL1.FHM == 0b0001.
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt b/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt
index 7169a0ec41d8..9940e924a47e 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt
@@ -34,6 +34,23 @@ model features for SVE is included in Appendix A.
following sections: software that needs to verify that those interfaces are
present must check for HWCAP_SVE instead.
+* On hardware that supports the SVE2 extensions, HWCAP2_SVE2 will also
+ be reported in the AT_HWCAP2 aux vector entry. In addition to this,
+ optional extensions to SVE2 may be reported by the presence of:
+
+ HWCAP2_SVE2
+ HWCAP2_SVEAES
+ HWCAP2_SVEPMULL
+ HWCAP2_SVEBITPERM
+ HWCAP2_SVESHA3
+ HWCAP2_SVESM4
+
+ This list may be extended over time as the SVE architecture evolves.
+
+ These extensions are also reported via the CPU ID register ID_AA64ZFR0_EL1,
+ which userspace can read using an MRS instruction. See elf_hwcaps.txt and
+ cpu-feature-registers.txt for details.
+
* Debuggers should restrict themselves to interacting with the target via the
NT_ARM_SVE regset. The recommended way of detecting support for this regset
is to connect to a target process first and then attempt a