On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 04:39:50PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> index da250e4741bd..3424f5881390 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> @@ -764,6 +764,18 @@ static inline bool cpu_has_hw_af(void)
> ID_AA64MMFR1_HADBS_SHIFT);
> }
>
> +static inline bool system_has_hw_af(void)
> +{
> + u64 mmfr1;
> +
> + if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM64_HW_AFDBM))
> + return false;
> +
> + mmfr1 = read_sanitised_ftr_reg(SYS_ID_AA64MMFR1_EL1);
> + return cpuid_feature_extract_unsigned_field(mmfr1,
> + ID_AA64MMFR1_HADBS_SHIFT);
> +}
Could we not add a new system-wide cpu feature that checks for hardware
AF? This read_sanitised_ftr_reg() does a binary search on each
invocation.
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Catalin
