Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755343AbbHKI6G (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2015 04:58:06 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:54660 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755155AbbHKI6D (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2015 04:58:03 -0400 Message-ID: <55C9B918.90807@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 09:58:00 +0100 From: Andrew Haley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Suzuki K. Poulose" , Catalin Marinas CC: "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Mark Rutland , Will Deacon , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "edward.nevill@linaro.org" Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/10] arm64: feature registers: Documentation References: <1437731037-25795-1-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com> <1437731037-25795-2-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com> <20150810160636.GB15394@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <55C8E12E.6030305@arm.com> <55C8EB17.7090708@redhat.com> <55C9B51D.1060601@arm.com> In-Reply-To: <55C9B51D.1060601@arm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 978 Lines: 27 On 11/08/15 09:41, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote: > The REVIDR has to be used in conjunction with the MIDR to make real sense. Sure, of course. > We cannot guarantee that the REVIDR that we read (would) belong to the CPU > where MIDR would have been read (unless the process is pinned) and hence the > user may not be able to make any use of the information. Well, yes, nothing is perfect. The situation we're in now, for example, is that if we see Cortex A57 we have to assume Cortex A53 and include workarounds. People might mix and match processors. So it goes. > Steve has a patch [1] > to expose the MIDR,REVIDR info via sysfs. > > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/24/420 OK. As long as I can get at it I'm happy. Andrew. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/