ARM: 8663/1: wire up HWCAP/HWCAP2 feature bits to the CPU modalias
authorArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Sun, 19 Mar 2017 16:23:31 +0000 (17:23 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Thu, 30 Mar 2017 18:45:52 +0000 (19:45 +0100)
commitea2d9a96b6abe57d72d39a7af24e0120f5df0a8c
tree19908b045b74aa4dc50a6dba1f58061bc1feafbb
parentdd59f974bd5e04d000e38ceca1a19085d029794b
ARM: 8663/1: wire up HWCAP/HWCAP2 feature bits to the CPU modalias

Wire up the generic support for exposing CPU feature bits via the
modalias in /sys/device/system/cpu. This allows udev to automatically
load modules for things like crypto algorithms that are implemented
using optional instructions.

Since it is non-trivial to transparantly support both HWCAP and HWCAP2
capabilities in the cpu_feature() macro (which allows a module's hwcap
dependency and init routine to be declared using a single invocation of
module_cpu_feature_match()), support only HWCAP2 for now, which covers
the capabilities that are most likely to be useful in this manner.
Module dependencies on HWCAP will need to be declared explicitly via a
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(cpu, ...) declaration.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
arch/arm/Kconfig
arch/arm/include/asm/cpufeature.h [new file with mode: 0644]