ARM: Make CONFIG_CPU_V7 valid for 32bit ARMv8 implementations
authorMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Fri, 17 Mar 2023 19:50:25 +0000 (15:50 -0400)
committerWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Mon, 27 Mar 2023 13:01:18 +0000 (14:01 +0100)
ARMv8 is a superset of ARMv7, and all the ARMv8 features are
discoverable with a set of ID registers. It means that we can
use CPU_V7 to guard ARMv8 features at compile time.

This commit simply amends the CPU_V7 configuration symbol comment
to reflect that CPU_V7 also covers ARMv8.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Zaid Al-Bassam <zalbassam@google.com>
Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230317195027.3746949-7-zalbassam@google.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
arch/arm/mm/Kconfig

index c5bbae8..be183ed 100644 (file)
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ config CPU_V6K
        select CPU_THUMB_CAPABLE
        select CPU_TLB_V6 if MMU
 
-# ARMv7
+# ARMv7 and ARMv8 architectures
 config CPU_V7
        bool
        select CPU_32v6K