Commit 40a1db24 authored by Will Deacon's avatar Will Deacon

arm64: elf: advertise 8.1 atomic instructions as new hwcap

The ARM v8.1 architecture introduces new atomic instructions to the A64
instruction set for things like cmpxchg, so advertise their availability
to userspace using a hwcap.
Reviewed-by: default avatarSteve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
parent c275f76b
......@@ -27,5 +27,6 @@
#define HWCAP_SHA1 (1 << 5)
#define HWCAP_SHA2 (1 << 6)
#define HWCAP_CRC32 (1 << 7)
#define HWCAP_ATOMICS (1 << 8)
#endif /* _UAPI__ASM_HWCAP_H */
......@@ -278,6 +278,19 @@ static void __init setup_processor(void)
if (block && !(block & 0x8))
elf_hwcap |= HWCAP_CRC32;
block = (features >> 20) & 0xf;
if (!(block & 0x8)) {
switch (block) {
default:
case 2:
elf_hwcap |= HWCAP_ATOMICS;
case 1:
/* RESERVED */
case 0:
break;
}
}
#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
/*
* ID_ISAR5_EL1 carries similar information as above, but pertaining to
......@@ -457,6 +470,7 @@ static const char *hwcap_str[] = {
"sha1",
"sha2",
"crc32",
"atomics",
NULL
};
......
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