linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] arm64: cpufeature: introduce helper cpu_has_hw

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Date:   Mon, 23 Sep 2019 17:07:11 +0100
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Jia He <justin.he@....com>
Cc:     Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Suzuki Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@....com>,
        Punit Agrawal <punitagrawal@...il.com>,
        Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>,
        Alex Van Brunt <avanbrunt@...dia.com>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>, hejianet@...il.com,
        Kaly Xin <Kaly.Xin@....com>, nd@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] arm64: cpufeature: introduce helper
 cpu_has_hw_af()

On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 09:50:52PM +0800, Jia He wrote:
> We unconditionally set the HW_AFDBM capability and only enable it on
> CPUs which really have the feature. But sometimes we need to know
> whether this cpu has the capability of HW AF. So decouple AF from
> DBM by new helper cpu_has_hw_af().
> 
> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@...el.com>
> Suggested-by: Suzuki Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Jia He <justin.he@....com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> index c96ffa4722d3..46caf934ba4e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> @@ -667,6 +667,16 @@ static inline u32 id_aa64mmfr0_parange_to_phys_shift(int parange)
>  	default: return CONFIG_ARM64_PA_BITS;
>  	}
>  }
> +
> +/* Decouple AF from AFDBM. */

We could do with a better comment here or just remove it altogether. The
aim of the patch was to decouple AF check from the AF+DBM but the
comment here should describe what the function does. Maybe something
like: "Check whether hardware update of the Access flag is supported".

> +static inline bool cpu_has_hw_af(void)
> +{
> +	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM64_HW_AFDBM))
> +		return read_cpuid(ID_AA64MMFR1_EL1) & 0xf;
> +
> +	return false;
> +}

Other than the comment above,

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>