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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/arm64')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt b/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt index 13d6691b37be..11805777031e 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt @@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ architected discovery mechanism available to userspace code at EL0. The kernel exposes the presence of these features to userspace through a set of flags called hwcaps, exposed in the auxilliary vector. -Userspace software can test for features by acquiring the AT_HWCAP entry -of the auxilliary vector, and testing whether the relevant flags are -set, e.g. +Userspace software can test for features by acquiring the AT_HWCAP or +AT_HWCAP2 entry of the auxiliary vector, and testing whether the relevant +flags are set, e.g. bool floating_point_is_present(void) { @@ -194,3 +194,10 @@ HWCAP_PACG Functionality implied by ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1.GPA == 0b0001 or ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1.GPI == 0b0001, as described by Documentation/arm64/pointer-authentication.txt. + + +4. Unused AT_HWCAP bits +----------------------- + +For interoperation with userspace, the kernel guarantees that bits 62 +and 63 of AT_HWCAP will always be returned as 0. |