linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] arm64: Documentation: cpu-feature-registers: Remove RES0 fields

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Date:   Mon, 12 Mar 2018 11:16:32 +0000
From:   Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To:     Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        will.deacon@....com, dave.martin@....com, catalin.marinas@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] arm64: Documentation: cpu-feature-registers:
 Remove RES0 fields

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 10:04:13AM +0000, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> Remove the invisible RES0 field entries from the table, listing
> fields in CPU ID feature registers, as :
>  1) We are only interested in the user visible fields.
>  2) The field description may not be up-to-date, as the
>     field could be assigned a new meaning.
>  3) We already explain the rules of the fields which are not
>     visible.
> 
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
> Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>

Sounds reasonable to me. FWIW:

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>

Mark.

> ---
>  Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt | 8 --------
>  1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt b/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt
> index a70090b28b07..22cfb86143ee 100644
> --- a/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt
> @@ -110,7 +110,6 @@ infrastructure:
>       x--------------------------------------------------x
>       | Name                         |  bits   | visible |
>       |--------------------------------------------------|
> -     | RES0                         | [63-52] |    n    |
>       |--------------------------------------------------|
>       | FHM                          | [51-48] |    y    |
>       |--------------------------------------------------|
> @@ -124,8 +123,6 @@ infrastructure:
>       |--------------------------------------------------|
>       | RDM                          | [31-28] |    y    |
>       |--------------------------------------------------|
> -     | RES0                         | [27-24] |    n    |
> -     |--------------------------------------------------|
>       | ATOMICS                      | [23-20] |    y    |
>       |--------------------------------------------------|
>       | CRC32                        | [19-16] |    y    |
> @@ -135,8 +132,6 @@ infrastructure:
>       | SHA1                         | [11-8]  |    y    |
>       |--------------------------------------------------|
>       | AES                          | [7-4]   |    y    |
> -     |--------------------------------------------------|
> -     | RES0                         | [3-0]   |    n    |
>       x--------------------------------------------------x
>  
>  
> @@ -144,12 +139,9 @@ infrastructure:
>       x--------------------------------------------------x
>       | Name                         |  bits   | visible |
>       |--------------------------------------------------|
> -     | RES0                         | [63-36] |    n    |
>       |--------------------------------------------------|
>       | SVE                          | [35-32] |    y    |
>       |--------------------------------------------------|
> -     | RES0                         | [31-28] |    n    |
> -     |--------------------------------------------------|
>       | GIC                          | [27-24] |    n    |
>       |--------------------------------------------------|
>       | AdvSIMD                      | [23-20] |    y    |
> -- 
> 2.14.3
>