Subject: [PATCH 14/14] ARM: elf: add new hwcap for identifying atomic ldrd/strd instructions

From: [email-masked] (Catalin Marinas)
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 15:18:09 +0100

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 06:07:53PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> CPUs implementing LPAE have atomic ldrd/strd instructions, meaning that
> userspace software can avoid having to use the exclusive variants of
> these instructions if they wish.
> 
> This patch advertises the atomicity of these instructions via the
> hwcaps, so userspace can detect this CPU feature.
> 
> Reported-by: Vladimir Danushevsky <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email-masked]>
...
> +
> +	/* LPAE implies atomic ldrd/strd instructions */
> +	vmsa = (read_cpuid_ext(CPUID_EXT_MMFR0) & 0xf) >> 0;
> +	if (vmsa >= 5)
> +		elf_hwcap |= HWCAP_LPAE;

As I mentioned in the past, I don't agree with exposing the "LPAE"
feature to user-space, it's not a feature that user space should care
about. An atomic double hwcap is better and you can even make this per
CPU via __v7_proc.

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Catalin