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From: marc.zyngier@arm•com (Marc Zyngier)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] arm64: erratum: Workaround for Kryo reserved system register read
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 12:00:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57078F3A.7020406@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5707887E.3030406@arm.com>

On 08/04/16 11:31, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> On 08/04/16 11:24, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> On 08/04/16 10:58, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
>>> On 07/04/16 18:31, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>>
>>>>> +	All system register encodings above use the form
>>>>> +
>>>>> +	Op0, Op1, CRn, CRm, Op2.
>>>>> +
>>>>> +	Note that some of the encodings listed above include
>>>>> +	the system register space reserved for the following
>>>>> +	identification registers which may appear in future revisions
>>>>> +	of the ARM architecture beyond ARMv8.0.
>>>>> +	This space includes:
>>>>> +	ID_AA64PFR[2-7]_EL1
>>>>> +	ID_AA64DFR[2-3]_EL1
>>>>> +	ID_AA64AFR[2-3]_EL1
>>>>> +	ID_AA64ISAR[2-7]_EL1
>>>>> +	ID_AA64MMFR[2-7]_EL1
>>>
>>>
>>> AFAIK, the id space is unassigned. So the naming above could cause confusion
>>> if the register is named something else.
>>
>> It is reserved *at the moment*, but already has a defined behaviour. My
> 
> Absolutely, they do need to be RAZ.  My point was assigning names to the reserved
> space where the names are unassigned.

Sorry - I misread your statement. It makes a lot more sense now that the
coffee has trickled in.

We're in violent agreement! ;-)

Thanks,

	M.
-- 
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-08 11:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-07 15:54 [PATCH] arm64: erratum: Workaround for Kryo reserved system register read Naveen Kaje
2016-04-07 17:31 ` Marc Zyngier
2016-04-08  9:58   ` Suzuki K Poulose
2016-04-08 10:24     ` Marc Zyngier
2016-04-08 10:31       ` Suzuki K Poulose
2016-04-08 11:00         ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2016-04-11  6:49       ` James Morse
2016-04-11 10:06         ` Will Deacon
2016-04-12 13:27 ` Catalin Marinas

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