linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM: aspeed: ast2500 is ARMv6K

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Fri, 20 Sep 2019 15:24:01 +0930
From:   "Andrew Jeffery" <andrew@...id.au>
To:     "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>, "Joel Stanley" <joel@....id.au>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-aspeed@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: aspeed: ast2500 is ARMv6K



On Thu, 19 Sep 2019, at 23:56, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Linux supports both the original ARMv6 level (early ARM1136) and ARMv6K
> (later ARM1136, ARM1176 and ARM11mpcore).
> 
> ast2500 falls into the second categoy, being based on arm1176jzf-s.
> This is enabled by default when using ARCH_MULTI_V6, so we should
> not 'select CPU_V6'.
> 
> Removing this will lead to more efficient use of atomic instructions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> ---
>  arch/arm/mach-aspeed/Kconfig | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-aspeed/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-aspeed/Kconfig
> index a293137f5814..163931a03136 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-aspeed/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-aspeed/Kconfig
> @@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ config MACH_ASPEED_G4
>  config MACH_ASPEED_G5
>  	bool "Aspeed SoC 5th Generation"
>  	depends on ARCH_MULTI_V6
> -	select CPU_V6
>  	select PINCTRL_ASPEED_G5 if !CC_IS_CLANG

Unrelated, but I'm intrigued by this. Looks like I should try compile it with clang
and fix the fallout.

Andrew