Re: [PATCH 1/5] arm64: spe: Allow new bits in SPE filter register

From: Leo Yan
Date: Sat Sep 26 2020 - 22:52:07 EST


Hi Andre,

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 11:12:21AM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
> The ARMv8.3-SPE extension adds some new bits for the event filter.
>
> Remove bits 11, 17 and 18 from the RES0 mask, so they can be used
> correctly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h
> index 554a7e8ecb07..efca4ee28671 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h
> @@ -281,7 +281,7 @@
> #define SYS_PMSFCR_EL1_ST_SHIFT 18
>
> #define SYS_PMSEVFR_EL1 sys_reg(3, 0, 9, 9, 5)
> -#define SYS_PMSEVFR_EL1_RES0 0x0000ffff00ff0f55UL
> +#define SYS_PMSEVFR_EL1_RES0 0x0000ffff00f90755UL

This patch is duplicate with Wei Li's patch [1]. You could see there
have some discussion and Will gave suggestions [2] for the patch, this
would be a good start point to continue this work.

Thanks,
Leo

[1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg825364.html
[2] https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg835733.html

>
> #define SYS_PMSLATFR_EL1 sys_reg(3, 0, 9, 9, 6)
> #define SYS_PMSLATFR_EL1_MINLAT_SHIFT 0
> --
> 2.17.1
>