Re: [PATCHv3 0/3] Handle SETEND for AArch32 tasks

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Fri Jan 23 2015 - 12:16:49 EST


On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:43:08PM +0000, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
> From: "Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>
>
> This series add support for controlling the 'setend' instruction,
> which is deprecated in ARMv8, using the legacy instruction emulation
> framework, introduced by Punit Agrawal.
>
> Changes since V2:
> - Move ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1 bit definitions to asm/cputype.h
> - Use mask/value pair for the features in ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1
> - Better documentation about the hardware support limitaion under
> Documentation and the Kconfig help
> - Restore the original 'set_hw_mode' API, with wrappers to invoke
> the set_hw_mode for on_each_cpu() variants.
> - Print a warning when we detect an incompatibility for a registered
> insn_emulation hook on a hotplugged CPU.
>
> Changes since V1:
> - Added a patch to keep track of the mixed endian support and register
> the setend emulation only if all the active CPUs supports mixed endian.
> - Fail hotplug operation if the CPU doesn't support a feature
> required by insn_emulation.
> - Signal handler runs in native endian

I queued these patches for 3.20 (and included Punit's suggestion as
well). They should appear in linux-next later today.

Cc'ing Greg H @ Google since they are the main users of the emulation
code. If you see any problem, please let us know.

Thanks.

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Catalin
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