linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2] arm64/cpufeature: Drop open encodings while extracting parange

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Date:   Mon, 18 May 2020 17:59:59 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To:     Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, mark.rutland@....com,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] arm64/cpufeature: Drop open encodings while
 extracting parange

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 02:33:34PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> Currently there are multiple instances of parange feature width mask open
> encodings while fetching it's value. Even the width mask value (0x7) itself
> is not accurate. It should be (0xf) per ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1.PARange[3:0] as in
> ARM ARM (0487F.a). Replace them with cpuid_feature_extract_unsigned_field()
> which can extract given standard feature (4 bits width i.e 0xf mask) field.
> 
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@....com>
> Cc: kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>
> ---
> Changes in V2:
> 
> - Used cpuid_feature_extract_unsigned_field() per Mark
> 
> Changes in V1: (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11541913/)
> 
>  arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c |  3 ++-
>  arch/arm64/kvm/reset.c         | 11 ++++++++---
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>

I'm assuming Marc will take this, but let me know if it should go via arm64
instead (where we have a bunch of other cpufeature stuff queued).

Will