linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH v9 1/3] arm64: cpufeature: introduce helper cpu_has_hw

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Date:   Thu, 26 Sep 2019 09:23:18 +0000
From:   "Justin He (Arm Technology China)" <Justin.He@....com>
To:     Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@....com>
CC:     Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Mark Rutland <Mark.Rutland@....com>,
        James Morse <James.Morse@....com>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v9 1/3] arm64: cpufeature: introduce helper
 cpu_has_hw_af()

Hi Catalin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
> Sent: 2019年9月25日 22:38
> To: Justin He (Arm Technology China) <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 (Arm Technology
> China) <Kaly.Xin@....com>; nd <nd@....com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 1/3] arm64: cpufeature: introduce helper
> cpu_has_hw_af()
> 
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 10:59:20AM +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().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jia He <justin.he@....com>
> > Suggested-by: Suzuki Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@....com>
> > Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@...el.com>
> 
> Which bug did the kbuild robot actually report? I'd drop this line.
> 
This line is added due to [1]:
"If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@...el.com>"

Yes, I know your concern, it is a little bit confusing. But I don't know
how to distinguish the case btw a) original bug report b) bug report
of my patch implementation? Thanks for any suggestion.

[1] https://www.lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/18/940


--
Cheers,
Justin (Jia He)