On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:43:08PM +0000, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote: > From: "Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki.poul...@arm.com> > > This series add support for controlling the 'setend' instruction, > which is deprecated in ARMv8, using the legacy instruction emulation > framework, introduced by Punit Agrawal. > > Changes since V2: > - Move ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1 bit definitions to asm/cputype.h > - Use mask/value pair for the features in ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1 > - Better documentation about the hardware support limitaion under > Documentation and the Kconfig help > - Restore the original 'set_hw_mode' API, with wrappers to invoke > the set_hw_mode for on_each_cpu() variants. > - Print a warning when we detect an incompatibility for a registered > insn_emulation hook on a hotplugged CPU. > > Changes since V1: > - Added a patch to keep track of the mixed endian support and register > the setend emulation only if all the active CPUs supports mixed endian. > - Fail hotplug operation if the CPU doesn't support a feature > required by insn_emulation. > - Signal handler runs in native endian
I queued these patches for 3.20 (and included Punit's suggestion as well). They should appear in linux-next later today. Cc'ing Greg H @ Google since they are the main users of the emulation code. If you see any problem, please let us know. Thanks. -- Catalin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
