Re: [PATCH 08/16] arm64: capabilities: Group handling of features and errata

2018-01-30 Thread Dave Martin
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 05:22:26PM +, Suzuki K Poulose wrote: > On 29/01/18 17:14, Dave Martin wrote: > >On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:31:18PM +, Suzuki K Poulose wrote: > >>On 26/01/18 11:47, Dave Martin wrote: > >>>On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 12:28:01PM +, Suzuki K Poulose wrote: > So fa

Re: [PATCH 08/16] arm64: capabilities: Group handling of features and errata

2018-01-29 Thread Suzuki K Poulose
On 29/01/18 17:14, Dave Martin wrote: On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:31:18PM +, Suzuki K Poulose wrote: On 26/01/18 11:47, Dave Martin wrote: On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 12:28:01PM +, Suzuki K Poulose wrote: So far we have had separate routes for triggering errata and feature "triggering err

Re: [PATCH 08/16] arm64: capabilities: Group handling of features and errata

2018-01-29 Thread Dave Martin
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:31:18PM +, Suzuki K Poulose wrote: > On 26/01/18 11:47, Dave Martin wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 12:28:01PM +, Suzuki K Poulose wrote: > >>So far we have had separate routes for triggering errata and feature > > > >"triggering errata" ? ;) > > > > :-). Shoul

Re: [PATCH 08/16] arm64: capabilities: Group handling of features and errata

2018-01-26 Thread Suzuki K Poulose
On 26/01/18 11:47, Dave Martin wrote: On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 12:28:01PM +, Suzuki K Poulose wrote: So far we have had separate routes for triggering errata and feature "triggering errata" ? ;) :-). Should have been "triggering errata and feature capability *checks*. Maybe "[...] for

Re: [PATCH 08/16] arm64: capabilities: Group handling of features and errata

2018-01-26 Thread Dave Martin
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 12:28:01PM +, Suzuki K Poulose wrote: > So far we have had separate routes for triggering errata and feature "triggering errata" ? ;) Maybe "[...] for determining whether to activate errata workarounds and whether to enable feature capabilities." > capabilities. Also,

[PATCH 08/16] arm64: capabilities: Group handling of features and errata

2018-01-23 Thread Suzuki K Poulose
So far we have had separate routes for triggering errata and feature capabilities. Also, we never allowed "features" based on local CPU and "errata" based on System wide safe registers. This patch groups the handling of errata and features and also allows them to have all the possible scopes. So,