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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Szabolcs Nagy <Szabolcs.Nagy@arm.com>
Cc: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>,
	 "libc-alpha\@sourceware.org" <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
	 nd <nd@arm.com>
Subject: Re: Add AArch64 HWCAPs from Linux 5.0
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:34:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bm27x79r.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eecdd483-b045-40d0-3010-9d815bf22167@arm.com> (Szabolcs Nagy's message of "Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:51:37 +0000")

* Szabolcs Nagy:

>> diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/bits/hwcap.h
>> b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/bits/hwcap.h
>> index 9a395c597f..5f50623953 100644
>> --- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/bits/hwcap.h
>> +++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/bits/hwcap.h
>> @@ -51,3 +51,6 @@
>>  #define HWCAP_ILRCPC		(1 << 26)
>>  #define HWCAP_FLAGM		(1 << 27)
>>  #define HWCAP_SSBS		(1 << 28)
>> +#define HWCAP_SB		(1 << 29)
>> +#define HWCAP_PACA		(1 << 30)
>> +#define HWCAP_PACG		(1UL << 31)
>
> Note: we ran out of 32bit hwcaps, so further flags here
> would not be compatible with ilp32 auxv.
>
> the plan is to introduce hwcap2 and keep adding flags
> there, however that will require a change in ifunc
> resolver abi if we want to pass down hwcap2.
> i will try to come up with a fix for that in this
> release cycle.

Yuck.  The last bit should have been used for indicating that
additional IFUNC resolver information is available. 8-(

Is there still a way to fix this without requiring additional ABI
symbols?

  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-19 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-18 21:30 Add AArch64 HWCAPs from Linux 5.0 Joseph Myers
2019-03-19  9:51 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2019-03-19 14:34   ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2019-03-19 16:03     ` Szabolcs Nagy
2019-03-19 16:07       ` Florian Weimer

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