MIPS: AT_HWCAP aux vector infrastructure

In order for userland to determine whether various features are safe to
use, it will need to know both that the hardware supports those features
and that the kernel is recent enough & configured appropriately to
support them. For example under the O32 modeless FP proposal the dynamic
linker & ifunc resolvers will need this information.  The kernel is the
only thing in a position to know availability accurately, so the kernel
needs to provide the information to userland. This patch introduces the
infrastructure to provide the AT_HWCAP aux vector to userland in order
to provide that information. It also defines the 2 currently specified
flags, which indicate MIPSr6 & MSA support.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Matthew Fortune <matthew.fortune@imgtec.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Leonid Yegoshin <Leonid.Yegoshin@imgtec.com>
Cc: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/10797/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/elf.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/elf.h
index f19e890b99d2744ae4984ea54e2ca9e5128ce7fe..53b26933b12cea365457f95172fbde6990043ff1 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/elf.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/elf.h
@@ -382,7 +382,9 @@ do {                                                                        \
    instruction set this cpu supports.  This could be done in userspace,
    but it's not easy, and we've already done it here.  */
 
-#define ELF_HWCAP      (0)
+#define ELF_HWCAP      (elf_hwcap)
+extern unsigned int elf_hwcap;
+#include <asm/hwcap.h>
 
 /*
  * This yields a string that ld.so will use to load implementation

diff --git a/arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/hwcap.h b/arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/hwcap.h
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..c7484a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/hwcap.h
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#ifndef _UAPI_ASM_HWCAP_H
+#define _UAPI_ASM_HWCAP_H
+
+/* HWCAP flags */
+#define HWCAP_MIPS_R6          (1 << 0)
+#define HWCAP_MIPS_MSA         (1 << 1)
+
+#endif /* _UAPI_ASM_HWCAP_H */

diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c b/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c
index 987036761fb61f3b1694db73e9c4aa5f8f646d16..b6c1feed8b7b6edc4a451a0f6376f2859511472a 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@
 #include <asm/spram.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 
+/* Hardware capabilities */
+unsigned int elf_hwcap __read_mostly;
+
 /*
  * Get the FPU Implementation/Revision.
  */